abstract：:This study investigated the radioprotective effect of Sipunculus nudus L. polysaccharide (SNP) in combination with WR-2721, rhIL-11 and rhG-CSF on irradiated mice. A total of 70 Imprinting Control Region (ICR) mice were divided into seven groups: the control group, the model group and five administration groups. All g...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Jiang S,Shen X,Liu Y,He Y,Jiang D,Chen W

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to analyze the dosimetry and investigate the clinical outcomes of radiation-induced rib fractures (RIRFs) after stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). A total of 126 patients with Stage I primary lung cancer treated with SBRT, who had undergone follow-up computed tomography (CT) at least ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Miura H,Inoue T,Shiomi H,Oh RJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective analysis focusses on the impact of therapy on perceived long-term post-cancer treatment function. A validated questionnaire including items and components for the assessment of communicative ability, quality of voice and swallowing was sent to 129 patients. All patients were treated between 1998 and...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Szuecs M,Kuhnt T,Punke C,Witt G,Klautke G,Kramp B,Hildebrandt G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactions of edaravone (3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolin-5-one) with deoxyguanosine monophosphate (dGMP) hydroxyl radical adducts were investigated by pulse radiolysis technique. Edaravone was found to reduce the dGMP hydroxyl radical adducts through electron transfer reactions. The rate constants of the reactions were g...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hata K,Urushibara A,Yamashita S,Lin M,Muroya Y,Shikazono N,Yokoya A,Fu H,Katsumura Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been demonstrated that the presence of fetal bovine serum is necessary for TGF-β3 (transforming growth factor beta 3)-dependent elimination of low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) in cells by 1 h of low-dose-rate γ-irradiation (0.2-0.3 Gy/h). The purpose of the present study was to identify the seru...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Edin NF

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to carry out geometric and dosimetric evaluation of the usefulness of a deformable image registration algorithm utilized for adaptive head-and-neck intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Data consisted of seven patients, each with a planning CT (pCT), a rescanning CT (ReCT) and a cone beam CT (CBC...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Eiland RB,Maare C,Sjöström D,Samsøe E,Behrens CF

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：: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：:The purpose of this study was to analyze the clinical outcomes of simultaneous modulated accelerated radiotherapy (SMART) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). A total of 97 patients who underwent SMART for NPC between August 2005 and November 2011 were evaluated. The prescribed dose was 69.9 Gy/30 fraction...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tang JM,Ma XM,Hou YL,Dai LY,Cao HB,Ye M,Bai YR

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：:Resveratrol has received considerable attention as a polyphenol with anti-oxidant, anti-carcinogenic, and anti-inflammatory effects. Radiation is an important component of therapy for a wide range of malignant conditions. However, it causes damage to normal cells and, hence, can result in adverse side effects. This st...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Jeong MH,Yang KM,Jeong DH,Lee CG,Oh SJ,Jeong SK,Lee KW,Jo YR,Jo WS

更新日期：2014-05-01 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 space radiation environment imposes increased dangers of exposure to ionizing radiation, particularly during a solar particle event (SPE). These events consist primarily of low energy protons that produce a highly inhomogeneous dose distribution. Due to this inherent dose heterogeneity, experiments designed to inv...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Diffenderfer ES,Dolney D,Schaettler M,Sanzari JK,McDonough J,Cengel KA

更新日期：2014-03-01 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 present study was undertaken to determine relative biological effectiveness (RBE) values for simulated solar particle event (SPE) radiation on peripheral blood cells using Yucatan minipigs and electron-simulated SPE as the reference radiation. The results demonstrated a generally downward trend in the RBE values w...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Sanzari JK,Wan SX,Diffenderfer ES,Cengel KA,Kennedy AR

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:The aim of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of estimating the strength of the moving radiation source during patient implantation. The requirement for the counting time was investigated by comparing the results of the measurements for the static source with those for the source moving at 2, 5, 10 and 20 cm...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Tanaka K,Endo S,Tateoka K,Asanuma O,Kamo K,Sato K,Takeda H,Takagi M,Hareyama M,Takada J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of proton irradiation on the function and structure of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa peroxiredoxin (PaPrx). Polyacrylamide gel demonstrated that PaPrx proteins exposed to proton irradiation at several doses exhibited simultaneous formation of high molecular weight (HMW) complexes and fragmenta...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Park CH,Lee SS,Kim KR,Jung MH,Lee SY,Cho EJ,Singh S,Chung BY

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the mutational effects of radiation on vigorously proliferating plant tissue, the mutation spectrum was analyzed with Arabidopsis seedlings using the plasmid-rescue method. Transgenic plants containing the Escherichia coli rpsL gene were irradiated with γ-rays and carbon ion beams (320-MeV (12)C(6+)), and mu...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Yoshihara R,Nozawa S,Hase Y,Narumi I,Hidema J,Sakamoto AN

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the sorafenib era, advanced but liver-confined hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was treated by liver-directed therapy. Hepatic arterial concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) has been performed in our group, giving substantial local control but frequent failure. The aim of this study was to analyze patterns of failu...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Cha H,Yoon HI,Lee IJ,Koom WS,Han KH,Seong J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate interfractional changes of the minimum dose delivered to 90% of the high-risk clinical target volume (HR-CTV D90) and D2cc of the bladder and rectum during brachytherapy for uterine cervical cancer patients. A total of 52 patients received external beam radiotherapy and high-d...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohkubo Y,Ohno T,Noda SE,Kubo N,Nakagawa A,Kawahara M,Abe T,Kiyohara H,Wakatsuki M,Nakano T

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a mechanism in which low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) is permanently removed, induced by low-dose-rate (LDR) (0.2-0.3 Gy/h for 1 h) but not by high-dose-rate priming (0.3 Gy at 40 Gy/h) was investigated. One HRS-negative cell line (NHIK 3025) and two HRS-positive cell lines (T-47D, T98G) were used....

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Edin NJ,Sandvik JA,Vollan HS,Reger K,Görlach A,Pettersen EO

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since December 2009, after breast-conserving surgery for Stage 0-I cancer of the left breast, 21 women with relatively pendulous breasts underwent computed tomography prone and supine simulations. The adjuvant radiotherapy was 50 Gy in 25 fractions to the left breast alone. Four plans--conventional wedged tangents and...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Chen JL,Cheng JC,Kuo SH,Chan HM,Huang YS,Chen YH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the biological response of normal cells to fractionated carbon beam irradiation, the effects of potentially lethal damage repair (PLDR) and sublethal damage repair (SLDR) were both taken into account in a linear-quadratic (LQ) model. The model was verified by the results of a fractionated cell survival e...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Wada M,Suzuki M,Liu C,Kaneko Y,Fukuda S,Ando K,Matsufuji N

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:miR-34a is transcriptionally induced by the tumor suppressor gene p53, which is often downregulated in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). To address whether the downstream signal of miR-34a is sufficient to induce apoptosis and to alter cellular radiosensitivity, a chemical synthetic miR-34a mimic was delivered into ...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Duan W,Xu Y,Dong Y,Cao L,Tong J,Zhou X

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conceptual design of a mobile isocenter carbon ion gantry was carried out in the framework of the Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER) and Union of Light Ion Centres in Europe (ULICE) projects. To validate the magnets used in this gantry, Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations were performe...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Moreno JO,Pullia MG,Priano C,Lante V,Necchi MM,Savazzi S

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Differentiation-induction therapy is an attractive approach in leukemia treatment. It has been suggested that the accumulation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) is involved in megakaryocytic differentiation induced by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) in the K562 leukemia cell line. Therefore, a ROS-i...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hirose K,Monzen S,Sato H,Sato M,Aoki M,Hatayama Y,Kawaguchi H,Narita Y,Takai Y,Kashiwakura I

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of radiotherapy concurrently with weekly cisplatin, followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, for the treatment of N2-3 nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) in Asian countries, especially regions of South and Southeast Asian countries where NPC is endemic. Between 20...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ohno T,Thinh DH,Kato S,Devi CR,Tung NT,Thephamongkhol K,Calaguas MJ,Zhou J,Chansilpa Y,Supriana N,Erawati D,Banu PA,Koo CC,Kobayashi K,Nakano T,Tsujii H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the dose-volume metrics under different heterogeneity corrections and the factors associated with local recurrence (LR) after stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Eighty-three patients who underwent SBRT for pathologically proven st...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Ueki N,Matsuo Y,Shibuya K,Nakamura M,Narabayashi M,Sakanaka K,Norihisa Y,Mizowaki T,Hiraoka M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of agents are now available for use in protecting against ionizing radiation. These radiation-protective agents, however, have many adverse effects. Efforts have been made to develop new radiation-protective agents for medical application. Here, we investigated whether a compound, polyethylenimine (PEI), whic...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hu Z,Xing Y,Qian Y,Chen X,Tu J,Ren L,Wang K,Chen Z

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:This study evaluated the effective dose of Ga-67 for a patient undergoing Ga-67 citrate nuclear examination by applying thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) technique and an indigenous water phantom. The Ga-67 radionuclide remaining in the body inevitably generated a measurable internal dose even though gamma camera scan...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Chu KH,Lin YT,Hsu CC,Chen CY,Pan LK

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the correlation between primary tumor response within 6 months after radiation therapy (RT) including proton beam therapy (PBT) and progression free survival rate (PFS) in patients with nasal cavity and paranasal sinus malignancies to clarify the impact of early radiological evaluation of treatment respons...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Hojo H,Zenda S,Akimoto T,Kohno R,Kawashima M,Arahira S,Nishio T,Tahara M,Hayashi R,Sasai K

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：:We have proposed four dimensional (4D) digitally reconstructed radiography (DRR) for verifying a lung tumor position during volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT). An internal target volume (ITV) was defined based on two clinical target volumes (CTVs) delineated on maximum exhalation and maximum inhalation images acq...

journal_title：Journal of radiation research

authors： Nakagawa K,Kida S,Haga A,Masutani Y,Yamashita H,Onoe T,Imae T,Tanaka K,Ohtomo K,Yoda K

更新日期：2012-07-01 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