Can intermediate-energy sources lead to elevated bone doses for prostate and head & neck high-dose-rate brachytherapy?

G Famulari, J Alfieri, M Duclos, T Vuong, SA Enger - Brachytherapy, 2020 - Elsevier
… Several radionuclides with high ( 60 Co, 75 Se) and … as alternatives to 192 Ir for high-dose-rate
brachytherapy. The … five high- to intermediate-energy sources in prostate and head & …

Can Intermediate Energy Sources Result in Increased Bone Doses for Pelvic and Head-and-Neck Brachytherapy?

G Famulari, J Alfieri, SA Enger - Brachytherapy, 2018 - brachyjournal.com
prostate cases there was a high dose to the pelvic bone, up to 50% and 70% of the prescribed
dose … , while femoral heads received up to 30% and 50% of the prescribed dose for 169 …

RapidBrachyDL: rapid radiation dose calculations in brachytherapy via deep learning

X Mao, J Pineau, R Keyes, SA Enger - International Journal of Radiation …, 2020 - Elsevier
… 47 patients with prostate cancer being used … high-energy sources in prostate and head and
neck brachytherapy. The authors concluded that D w,w underestimated the dose to the bones

Influence of daily imaging on plan quality and normal tissue toxicity for prostate cancer radiotherapy

K Bell, M Heitfeld, N Licht, C Rübe, Y Dzierma - Radiation Oncology, 2017 - Springer
… (kV or MV or some kind of intermediate energy photon beam). … a dose of about 25 mGy for
the prostate and 3–9 mGy for head … rather than bony structures, so that motion of the prostate, …

Model-based dose calculation algorithms for brachytherapy dosimetry

SA Enger, J Vijande, MJ Rivard - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2020 - Elsevier
dose distributions for breast, gynecologic, head and neck, rectum, and prostate cancers as
… For this energy range, which includes low and intermediate energy photon-emitting sources

A paired-image radiation transport model for skeletal dosimetry

AP Shah, WE Bolch, DA Rajon, PW Patton… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2005 - Soc Nuclear Med
skeletal dosimetry can overestimate dose to active bonedose by 6% and 11%, respectively,
in the femoral head—… ) a cause of death that would preclude significant skeletal deterioration…

[HTML][HTML] Energy modulated photon radiotherapy: a Monte Carlo feasibility study

Y Zhang, Y Feng, X Ming, J Deng - BioMed Research International, 2016 - hindawi.com
… 2007, Keller et al. showed that intermediate energy X-rays (… peripheral dose and fewer
monitor units (MUs) for prostate and … The mean dose to the femur head increased by 41.9% in HE…

Applications of low energy megavoltage X-ray beams in cancer radiotherapy

Y Zhang, Y Feng, J Deng - British Journal of Medicine …, 2015 - archive.article4submit.com
can be compensated efficiently, with deep-seated prostate cancer treated to high dose with
6 … simulations and experimental measurement that intermediate energy photon (in the range …

Applications of low energy megavoltage X-ray beams in cancer radiotherapy.

ZY Zhang Ying, FYM Feng YuanMing, J Deng - 2015 - cabidigitallibrary.org
can be compensated efficiently, with deep-seated prostate cancer treated to high dose with
6 … simulations and experimental measurement that intermediate energy photon (in the range …

Biological considerations when comparing proton therapy with photon therapy

H Paganetti, P Van Luijk - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2013 - Elsevier
prostate cancer, 7 mean dose to the parotid glands for xerostomia in head and neck cancer,
6 and V 20 and mean lung dose … ; squares: bone sarcoma; stars: ratio of the integral dose (…