Margin estimation and disturbances of irradiation field in layer-stacking carbon-ion beams for respiratory moving targets.

abstract：:X-ray induced neoplastic transformation of C3H/10T1/2 cells was suppressed equally by Lipid A and LPS. We examined the effects of several modifiers of arachidonic acid (AA) metabolism in our investigation on the suppression mechanism of LPS. Dexamethasone (DM), an inhibitor of phospholipase A2 (PLA2), abolished the ef...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sakiyama H,Yasukawa M,Nishijima M,Wada E,Kanegasaki S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to investigate the effect of chronic radiation exposure associated with the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident on the testes of boar and inobuta (a hybrid of Sus scrofa and Sus scrofa domestica). This study examined the contamination levels of radioactive caesium (Cs), especially (134)Cs an...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yamashiro H,Abe Y,Hayashi G,Urushihara Y,Kuwahara Y,Suzuki M,Kobayashi J,Kino Y,Fukuda T,Tong B,Takino S,Sugano Y,Sugimura S,Yamada T,Isogai E,Fukumoto M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) is a well-known bioresponse under low-dose or low-dose-rate exposures. Although disorder of the DNA repair function, non-targeted effects and accumulation of cells in G2 have been experimentally observed, the mechanism for inducing HRS by long-term irradiation is still unclear. On the basi...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Matsuya Y,Tsutsumi K,Sasaki K,Yoshii Y,Kimura T,Date H

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between cardiac toxicity after definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for esophageal cancer and the dose-volume histogram (DVH) of organs at risk (OARs) [using biological effective dose (BED)]. We analyzed the data of 83 patients with esophageal cancer treated using definitive...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takeuchi Y,Murakami Y,Kameoka T,Ochi M,Imano N,Takahashi I,Nishibuchi I,Kimura T,Kawahara D,Saito A,Nagata Y

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of mobile phones has aroused public concern regarding the potential health risks of radiofrequency (RF) fields. We investigated the effects of exposure to RF fields (2.45 GHz, continuous wave) at specific absorption rate (SAR) of 1, 5, and 10 W/kg for 1, 4, and 24 h on gene expression in a normal hu...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sakurai T,Kiyokawa T,Narita E,Suzuki Y,Taki M,Miyakoshi J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to provide data from a single-center study of the treatment of synchronous hypopharyngeal cancer (HPC) and esophageal cancer (EC) with different treatment modalities. A total of 61 patients with synchronous HPC and EC were included in this study. Patients were treated with radiotherapy/che...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yang S,Yang S,Liao W,Huang R,Li B,Lu S,Li C,Wang Z,Li C,Pei J,Wen H,Zhang S

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a clinical workflow of stereotactic volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for a lung tumor from planning to tumor position verification using 4D planning computed tomography (CT) and 4D cone-beam CT (CBCT). A 4D CT scanner, an Anzai belt and a BodyFix were employed to obtain 10-phase respiratory-correlate...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Nakagawa K,Haga A,Kida S,Masutani Y,Yamashita H,Takahashi W,Sakumi A,Saotome N,Shiraki T,Ohtomo K,Iwai Y,Yoda K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this review was to evaluate the impact of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status on disease recurrence in patients treated with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A literature search was conducted and a total of three studies were analyzed. ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ochiai S,Nomoto Y,Watanabe Y,Yamashita Y,Toyomasu Y,Kawamura T,Takada A,Noriko,Sakuma H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To elucidate the mechanism underlying the in vivo radioprotection activity by Zn-containing, heat-treated Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast (Zn-yeast). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Zn-yeast suspension was administered into C3H/He mice immediately after whole body irradiation (WBI) at 7.5 Gy. Bone marrow was extracted fr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ueno M,Imadome K,Iwakawa M,Anzai K,Ikota N,Imai T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the effect of the sympathetic nervous system on radiation-induced apoptosis in jejunal crypt cells, apoptosis levels were compared in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), animals which are a genetic hyperfunction model of the sympathetic nervous system, and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). SHR and W...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Matsuu M,Shichijo K,Nakamura Y,Ikeda Y,Naito S,Ito M,Okaichi K,Sekine I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to survey the current patterns of practice, and barriers to implementation, of 3D image-guided brachytherapy (3D-IGBT) for cervical cancer in Japan. A 30-item questionnaire was sent to 171 Japanese facilities where high-dose-rate brachytherapy devices were available in 2012. In total, 135 ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohno T,Toita T,Tsujino K,Uchida N,Hatano K,Nishimura T,Ishikura S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor hypoxia and angiogenesis have been studied extensively. However, the relation between normal tissue injury and hypoxia is still unclear. In this study, we investigated the effect of hypoxia on radiation-induced late rectal injury in mice. The rectum of C57BL/6N mice was irradiated locally with a single dose of 2...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Liu Y,Kudo K,Abe Y,Aoki M,Hu DL,Kijima H,Nakane A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various kinases, such as tyrosine, protein kinase C (PKC) and MAP kinase, play important role in the cellular response to radiation, but little is known about the specific response in the whole animal. Most studies, except a few, are based on single cells. There is a paucity of data where signaling following whole bod...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Varadkar PA,Krishna M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Japan, the use of adjuvant radiotherapy after prostatectomy for prostate cancer has not increased compared with the use of salvage radiotherapy. We retrospectively evaluated the outcome of adjuvant radiotherapy together with prognostic factors of outcome in Japan. Between 2005 and 2007, a total of 87 patients were ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Aoki M,Mizowaki T,Akimoto T,Nakamura K,Ejima Y,Jingu K,Tamai Y,Nakajima N,Takemoto S,Kokubo M,Katoh H

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Space Environment Service (ISES) is an international organization for space weather forecasts and belongs to the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). There are eleven ISES forecast centers in the world, and Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) runs the Japanese one. We make forecasts on t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Watari S,Tomita F

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-doses of irradiation have been reported to have beneficial effects, particularly anti-tumor effects. In this paper, we show the effects of the low-dose irradiation on T cell activation induced by dendritic cells (DCs). DCs, which had been pre-irradiated at 0.02-1.0 Gy from a (137)Cs source, were cultured with allo...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Shigematsu A,Adachi Y,Koike-Kiriyama N,Suzuki Y,Iwasaki M,Koike Y,Nakano K,Mukaide H,Imamura M,Ikehara S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe the results of definitive radiotherapy (RT) with concurrent chemotherapy for maxillary sinus carcinomas (MSCs) with neck lymph node metastasis to clarify its limitation. Local control (LC), progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) rates were calculated using t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Abe T,Saito S,Iino M,Aoshika T,Ryuno Y,Ohta T,Igari M,Hirai R,Kumazaki Y,Ebihara Y,Nakahira M,Sugasawa M,Noda SE,Kato S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a subset analysis of a retrospective multicenter study performed in Japan and its purpose was to investigate the effectiveness of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for pulmonary oligometastases from colorectal cancer. Local control (LC), freedom from further metastases, relapse-free survival and over...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yamamoto T,Niibe Y,Matsumoto Y,Onishi H,Aoki M,Nishikawa A,Oh RJ,Shintani T,Yahara K,Ozaki M,Manabe Y,Jingu K

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) demonstrates the precise location of the sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in patients with breast cancer. We evaluated the relationship between SLNs and postoperative tangential fields by using SPECT/CT images. Subjects included 72 patients with earl...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Wadasaki K,Nishibuchi I

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation killing of tumor cells by ionizing radiation is best described by the linear-quadratic (LQ) model. Research into the underlying mechanisms of α- and β-inactivation has suggested that different molecular targets (DNA in different forms) and different microdosimetric energy deposits (spurs versus electron ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Chapman JD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve treatment conformity for prostate cancer, we investigated daily applicator displacement during high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy (HDR-ISBT). Thirty patients treated with HDR-ISBT as monotherapy were examined. All patients received a treatment dosage of 49 Gy per 7 fractions over 4 days. For dose adm...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takenaka T,Yoshida K,Ueda M,Yamazaki H,Miyake S,Tanaka E,Yoshida M,Yoshimura Y,Oka T,Honda K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estimation of the dose and the irradiated fraction of the body is important information in the primary medical response in case of a radiological accident. The PCC-R assay has been developed for high-dose estimations, but little attention has been given to its applicability for partial-body irradiations. In the pr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Romero I,García O,Lamadrid AI,Gregoire E,González JE,Morales W,Martin C,Barquinero JF,Voisin P

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the efficacy and safety of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for patients with head and neck tumors. From April 2005 through April 2008, 34 patients with head and neck tumors were treated with CyberKnife SBRT. Twenty-one of them had prior radiotherapy. Treatment sites were orbit (n = 7), cervical...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kodani N,Yamazaki H,Tsubokura T,Shiomi H,Kobayashi K,Nishimura T,Aibe N,Ikeno H,Nishimura T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficacy of different schedules of HDR brachytherapy in concurrent chemoradiotherapy was evaluated. The study compared the effectiveness of the two HDR brachytherapy schedules which have the same Biological Effective Dose (BED) in locally advanced cervical carcinoma that was treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy. ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tharavichitkul E,Klunkin P,Lorvidhaya V,Sukthomya V,Chakrabhandu S,Pukanhaphan N,Chitapanarux I,Galalae R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H2AX undergoes phosphorylation at Ser-139 (gamma-H2AX) rapidly in response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by ionizing radiation. The post-translational modification of H2AX plays a central role in responses to radiation, including the repair of DSBs. Although ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) kin...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Koike M,Mashino M,Sugasawa J,Koike A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated toxicity and outcomes for patients with peripheral lung tumors treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in a dose-escalation and dose-convergence study. A total of 15 patients were enrolled. SBRT was performed with 60 Gy in 5 fractions (fr.) prescribed to the 60% isodose line of maximum dos...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takeda A,Oku Y,Sanuki N,Eriguchi T,Aoki Y,Enomoto T,Kaneko T,Nishimura S,Kunieda E

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the sensitizing effect of the 2-nitroimidazole analogue doranidazole, a new hypoxic radiosensitizer, on radiation-induced apoptosis in L5178Y cells. Apoptosis was assessed by checking DNA ladder formation, the presence of sub-G1 peaks in flow cytometry, and chromatin condensation. A radiosensitizing ef...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Aoki M,Furusawa Y,Shibamoto Y,Kobayashi A,Tsujitani M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with various cancers, modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS) before treatment has predicted prognoses after antitumor therapy. This study aimed to assess whether pretreatment mGPS also has predictive value in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) after radiotherapy. A retrospective review a...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kikuchi K,Nakamura R,Segawa T,Oikawa H,Ariga H

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediately after X-irradiation, monocytic cells can express the gene for interleukin (IL)-1beta, which enhances inflammation and contributes to radioprotection in mice. In order to analyze the mechanism(s) for the immediate-early induction of IL-1beta after X-irradiation at 20 Gy in cultured murine macrophages, we ex...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ishihara H,Tanaka I,Wan H,Cheeramakara C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the tumor reoxygenation patterns in three different murine tumor cell lines after X-irradiation with those after carbon-beam irradiation using a heavy-ion medical accelerator (HIMAC) system. The tumors of the cell lines SCCVII, SCCVII-variant-1 and EMT6 on the hind legs of mice received local priming irrad...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Oya N,Sasai K,Shibata T,Takagi T,Shibuya K,Koike S,Nojima K,Furusawa Y,Ando K,Hiraoka M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00