Vol 11, No 1 (2010)

Table of Contents

Editorials

Editorial: Why not a history? PDF HTML
George Starkschall

Radiation Oncology Physics

Comparison of a 3-D multi-group SN particle transport code with Monte Carlo for intracavitary brachytherapy of the cervix uteri PDF HTML
Kent A Gifford, Todd Wareing, Greg Failla, John Horton, Patricia Eifel, Firas Mourtada
Analysis of RapidArc optimization strategies using objective function values and dose-volume histograms PDF HTML
Michael Oliver, Isabelle Gagne, Carmen Popescu, Will Ansbacher, Wayne Beckham
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic based low cost tissue equivalent phantom for verification dosimetry in IMRT PDF HTML
Rajesh Kumar, S D Sharma, Sudesh Deshpande, Yogesh Ghadi, V S Shaiju, H I Amols, Y S Mayya
Establishing radiation therapy treatment planning effects involving implantable pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators PDF HTML
Michael S. Gossman, Alison R. Graves-Calhoun, Jeffrey D. Wilkinson
Dosimetric effects of air pocket sizes in MammoSite® treatment as accelerated partial breast irradiation for early breast cancer PDF HTML
Y. Jessica Huang, Melissa M Blough
Comparison of transabdominal ultrasound and electromagnetic transponders for prostate localization PDF HTML
Ryan Foster, Haisen Li, Andrew Kerkhoff, Charles Enke, Twyla Willoughby, Patrick Kupelian, Timothy Solberg
Dose perturbation due to the polysulfone cap surrounding a Fletcher-Williamson colpostat PDF HTML
Michael J. Price, Stephen F. Kry, Patricia J. Eifel, Mohammad Salehpour, Firas Mourtada
Helical Tomotherapy in the radiotherapy treatment of Hodgkin's disease- a feasibility study PDF HTML
Maria T Vlachaki, Sanath Kumar
Target and peripheral dose during patient repositioning with the Gamma Knife automatic positioning system (APS) device PDF HTML
Tuan-Anh Tran, Thomas R Stanley, Harish K Malhotra, Steven F de Boer, Dheerendra Prasad, Matthew B Podgorsak
Initial dosimetric evaluation of SmartArc - a novel VMAT treatment planning module implemented in a multi-vendor delivery chain PDF HTML
Vladimir Feygelman, Geoffrey G Zhang, Craig W Stevens
Percentage depth dose evaluation in heterogeneous media using thermoluminescent dosimetry PDF HTML
Luiz Antonio da Rosa, Simone Coutinho Cardoso, Luciana Campos, Victor Gabriel Alves, Delano Batista, Alessandro Facure
The utility of non-axial treatment beam orientations for lower lobe lung cancers PDF HTML
Brian Quaranta, Shiva Das, Timothy D. Shafman, Kim Light, Lawrence Marks
A computational tool for the efficient analysis of dose-volume histograms from radiation therapy treatment plans PDF HTML
Anil Pyakuryal, W.Kenji Myint, Mahesh Gopalakrishnan, Sunyoung Jang, Jerilyn A Logemann, Bharat B Mittal
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) and Respiratory Gating in Lung Cancer: Dosimetric and Radiobiological Considerations PDF HTML
Tania De La Fuente Herman, Maria T Vlachaki, Terence S Herman, Kerry Hibbitts, Julie A Stoner, Salahuddin Ahmad
Clinical implications of adopting Monte Carlo treatment planning for CyberKnife PDF HTML
Subhash C Sharma, Joseph T Ott, Jamone B Williams, Danny Dickow

Medical Imaging

Dependence of brain DTI maps of Fractional Anisotropy and Mean Diffusivity on the number of diffusion weighting directions PDF HTML
Marco Giannelli, Mirco Cosottini, Maria Chiara Michelassi, Guido Lazzarotti, Gina Belmonte, Carlo Bartolozzi, Mauro Lazzeri
An anthropomorphic beating heart phantom for cardiac x-ray CT imaging evaluation PDF HTML
Thomas Frederick Boltz, William Pavlicek, Robert Paden, Markus Renno, Angela Jensen, Metin Akay
Investigation of a 3D system distortion correction method for MR images PDF HTML
Teodor Stanescu, Hans Sonke Jans, Keith Wachowicz, B Gino Fallone
Average CT in PET studies of colorectal cancer patients with metastasis in the liver and esophageal cancer patients PDF HTML
Elena Tonkopi, Pai-Chun Melinda Chi, Osama Mawlawi, Adam C Riegel, Eric M Rohren, Homer A Macapinlac, Tinsu Pan

Radiation Measurements

Absorbed dose and dose rate using the Varian OBI 1.3 and 1.4 CBCT system PDF HTML
Åsa Palm, Elisabeth Nilsson, Lars Herrnsdorf
Angular dose dependence of Matrixx TM and its calibration PDF HTML
Luciant Wolfsberger, Matthew Wagar, Paige Nitsch, Mandar Bhagwat, Piotr Zygmanski

Non-ionizing Topics

A simple algorithm to assess patient suitability for Calypso-seed implantation for four-dimensional prostate localization PDF HTML
Randall J Kimple, Eric M Wallen, Raj S Pruthi, Lawrence B Marks

Other Topics

A grid to facilitate physics staffing justification PDF HTML
Eric E Klein

Technical Notes

Evaluation of Three APBI Techniques Under NSABP B-39 Guidelines PDF HTML
Daniel J Scanderbeg, Catheryn Yashar, Greg White, Roger Rice, Todd Pawlicki
Development of a Deformable Lung Phantom for the Evaluation of Deformable Registration PDF HTML
Jina Chang, Tae-Suk Suh, Dong-Soo Lee
A simple method to test the geometrical reliability of Digital Reconstructed Radiograph (DRR) PDF HTML
Stefania Pallotta, Marta Bucciolini


















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