Dosimetric comparison between volumetric modulated arc therapy planning techniques for prostate cancer in the presence of intrafractional organ deformation.

abstract：:The 239Pu distribution in the 12.5-day-old rat conceptus was compared between in vivo and in vitro experimental systems to establish a possible mechanism of cross-placental transfer of this radionuclide. In the in vivo study, plutonium citrate solution was injected intravenously to pregnant Wistar rats. In the in vitr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takahashi S,Sato H,Kubota Y,Inaba J

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:The yield of OH radical induced by ionizing radiation was estimated by an empirical model; a prescribed diffusion model for a spur of single size applying to neutral water. Two representative spur distances were introduced, one for an incident primary charged particle and one for a representative secondary electron, t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yamaguchi H,Uchihori Y,Yasuda N,Takada M,Kitamura H

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid ionization chambers (LICs) are highly sensitive to dose irradiation and have small perturbations because of their liquid-filled sensitive volume. They require a sensitive volume much smaller than conventional air-filled chambers. However, it has been reported that the collection efficiency has dependencies on t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takei H,Isobe T,Kitamura N,Mori Y,Tomita T,Kobayashi D,Kamizawa S,Sato T,Sakurai H,Sakae T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo laboratory experiments on tritium gas (HT) fixation in pine trees were conducted using one-way circuit inhalation apparatus and dwarf pine trees. After 2 hours of exposure to HT, tritium distribution in pine needles, branches, trunk, roots and soil was measured. The specific activity of tritium in pine needles...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ichimasa M,Ichimasa Y,Akita Y

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models for the action of mixed irradiation with two types of radiation have been proposed in the last two decades, although the superiority or inferiority of these models is not completely elucidated. However, mixed irradiation is sometimes composed of more than two types of radiation, and for this type of mix...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Suzuki S

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the toxicity and efficacy of multimodal approaches, including three-dimensional conformal re-irradiation, for patients with recurrent or persistent esophageal cancer after radiotherapy. Thirty-one patients with esophageal cancer treated with three-dimensional conformal re-irradi...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yamaguchi S,Ohguri T,Imada H,Yahara K,Moon SD,Higure A,Yamaguchi K,Yoshikawa I,Harada M,Korogi Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the interrelationship between rectal content and intrafraction motion of the prostate. Forty seven prostate cancer patients instructed to remove their rectal gas were imaged by planning CT and MRI before radiotherapy (RT) and during RT. The total scan time was comparable to our cone-beam CT scanning and t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ogino I,Kaneko T,Suzuki R,Matsui T,Takebayashi S,Inoue T,Morita S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported the usefulness of the field-in-field (FIF) technique in breast radiotherapy. However, the methods for the FIF technique used in these studies vary. These methods were classified into three categories. We simulated a radiotherapy plan with each method and analyzed the outcomes. In the firs...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tanaka H,Hayashi S,Hoshi H

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous studies, we found that low-dose radiation inhibits oxidative stress-induced diseases due to increased antioxidants. Although these effects of low-dose radiation were demonstrated, further research was needed to clarify the effects. However, the analysis of oxidative stress is challenging, especially th...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Kanzaki N,Kataoka T,Etani R,Sasaoka K,Kanagawa A,Yamaoka K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced bystander effects (RIBEs) are detected in cells that are not irradiated but receive signals from treated cells. The present study explored these bystander effects in a U87MG multicellular tumour spheroid model. A medium transfer technique was employed to induce the bystander effect, and colony format...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Faqihi F,Neshastehriz A,Soleymanifard S,Shabani R,Eivazzadeh N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin-regulating proteins represent a large class of novel targets for cancer therapy. In the context of radiotherapy, acetylation and deacetylation of histones by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) play important roles in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks generated by ionizing...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Oike T,Ogiwara H,Amornwichet N,Nakano T,Kohno T

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:The present paper reports and discusses the results concerning both the inter- and intrafraction accuracy achievable combining the immobilization system employed in patients with head-and-neck, brain and skull base tumors with image guidance at our particle therapy center. Moreover, we investigated the influence of in...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Amelio D,Winter M,Habermehl D,Jäkel O,Debus J,Combs SE

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although well described in the 1960s, liver toxicity secondary to radiation therapy, commonly known as radiation-induced liver disease (RILD), remains a major challenge. RILD encompasses two distinct clinical entities, a 'classic' form, composed of anicteric hepatomegaly, ascites and elevated alkaline phosphatase; and...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Toesca DAS,Ibragimov B,Koong AJ,Xing L,Koong AC,Chang DT

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy (RT) has become particularly important recently for treatment of liver tumors, but there are few experimental investigations pertaining to radiation-induced liver injuries over long-term follow-up periods. Thus, the present study examined pathological liver features over a 10-month period using an in...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Imaeda M,Ishikawa H,Yoshida Y,Takahashi T,Ohkubo Y,Musha A,Komachi M,Nakazato Y,Nakano T

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study proposes a quality assurance (QA) method incorporating radiobiological factors based on the QUANTEC-determined tumor control probability and the normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) of head-and-neck intensity-modulated radiation therapy (HN-IMRT). Per-beam measurements were conducted for 20 cases u...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hamatani N,Sumida I,Takahashi Y,Oda M,Seo Y,Isohashi F,Tamari K,Ogawa K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential radioprotective effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) against genotoxicity and cytotoxicity. The effect of WR-2721, as a representative of clinically used radioprotector, was compared with that of NAC, using the chromosomal aberration (CA) and micronucleus (MN) test syste...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Demirel C,Kilçiksiz S,Ay OI,Gürgül S,Ay ME,Erdal N

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the distance at which 50% of the individuals exposed to the A-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki died, ostensibly from their exposure to ionizing radiation. It is difficult to convert most of these distance estimates to a dose-related LD50, since radiation shielding was igno...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Fujita S,Kato H,Schull WJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the radiological response and clinical outcome in patients with femoral bone metastases after radiotherapy. 102 consecutive patients with femoral metastases without pathological fracture were treated by surgery or radiotherapy between 2002 and 2005. Twelve of them initially treated with surgery were exclu...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Harada H,Katagiri H,Kamata M,Yoshioka Y,Asakura H,Hashimoto T,Furutani K,Takahashi M,Sakahara H,Nishimura T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation induces biological effects not only in irradiated cells but also in non-irradiated cells, which is called the bystander effect. Recently, in vivo and in vitro experiments have suggested that both gap junction hemichannel connexin43 (Cx43) and extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) released from ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohshima Y,Tsukimoto M,Harada H,Kojima S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericardial effusion is an important late toxicity after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for locally advanced esophageal cancer. We investigated the clinical and dosimetric factors that were related to pericardial effusion among patients with thoracic esophageal cancer who were treated with definitive CCRT using t...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Takata N,Kataoka M,Hamamoto Y,Tsuruoka S,Kanzaki H,Uwatsu K,Nagasaki K,Mochizuki T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of proton beam therapy with cochlear dose reduction compared with conventional X-ray radiotherapy for medulloblastoma in childhood. METHODS:We developed a Markov model to describe health states of 6-year-old children with medulloblastoma after trea...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hirano E,Fuji H,Onoe T,Kumar V,Shirato H,Kawabuchi K

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the radiobiological effects of flattening filter (FF) and flattening filter-free (FFF) modes of linear electron accelerators and to understand whether there is any difference between the effects of these modes. We evaluated the number of chromosome aberrations following irradia...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Farkas G,Kocsis ZS,Székely G,Mihály D,Pesznyák C,Pócza T,Major T,Polgár C,Jurányi Z

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare the dosimetric parameters of whole-pelvic radiotherapy (WPRT) for cervical cancer among plans involving 3D conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT), intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), or spot-scanning proton therapy (SSPT). The dose distributions of 3D-CRT-, IMRT-, and SSPT-based WPRT...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hashimoto S,Shibamoto Y,Iwata H,Ogino H,Shibata H,Toshito T,Sugie C,Mizoe JE

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe our initial experience with a gold flexible linear fiducial marker and to evaluate the safety and technical and clinical efficacy of stereotactic body radiotherapy using this marker for malignant liver tumors. Between July 2012 and February 2015, 18 patients underwent percutaneous...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohta K,Shimohira M,Murai T,Nishimura J,Iwata H,Ogino H,Hashizume T,Shibamoto Y

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External beam radiotherapy is a potential salvage or adjuvant therapy after radical prostatectomy (RP). The purpose of this study was to investigate the treatment outcome of salvage radiotherapy (RT) following RP for clinically localized prostate cancer and to identify factors that may predict the outcome of salvage R...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hayashi S,Hayashi K,Yoshimura R,Masuda H,Kihara K,Shibuya H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a curative local treatment for large hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an important issue. Here, we investigated the dose homogeneity, safety and antitumor effectiveness of proton beam therapy (PBT) using a patch-field technique for large HCC. Data from nine patients (aged 52-79 years) with large HCC tr...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Nakamura M,Fukumitsu N,Kamizawa S,Numajiri H,Nemoto Murofushi K,Ohnishi K,Aihara T,Ishikawa H,Okumura T,Tsuboi K,Sakurai H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to investigate the normal tissue damage caused by carbon-ion therapy. We measured chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes before, during, and after radiotherapy, using the techniques of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and chemically induced premature chromosome co...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Lee R,Yamada S,Yamamoto N,Miyamoto T,Ando K,Durante M,Tsujii H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to analyze the patterns of care and outcomes of patients with FIGO Stage I/II cervical cancer who underwent definitive radiotherapy (RT) at multiple Japanese institutions. The Japanese Radiation Oncology Study Group (JROSG) performed a questionnaire-based survey of their cervical cancer p...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ariga T,Toita T,Kato S,Kazumoto T,Kubozono M,Tokumaru S,Eto H,Nishimura T,Niibe Y,Nakata K,Kaneyasu Y,Nonoshita T,Uno T,Ohno T,Iwata H,Harima Y,Wada H,Yoshida K,Gomi H,Numasaki H,Teshima T,Yamada S,Nakano T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00