PURPOSE: Although small animal image-guided radiotherapy (SA-IGRT) systems are used increasingly in preclinical research, tools for performing routine quality assurance (QA) have not been optimized and are not readily available. Robust, efficient, and reliable QA...
As skin cancer rates increase worldwide, with a predominance of head and neck cancers of varying levels of advance (80%) due to significant sun exposure to the area, and with an aging population and extended life expectancy, standard treatment regimens can be...
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Radiotherapy in the low-dose range with total doses of 5-6 Gy is in Germany an established method for the treatment of the pain symptoms in existing painful heel spurs. Most known results were achieved with orthovolt radiation. The answer to this question today is...
Xstrahl is delighted to announce a UK SARRP user group workshop taking place on Wednesday June 27th following the 2018 ARR meeting at Queen’s University, Belfast. This is a joint event held by Xstrahl, Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Research Working Group...
Cancer is a complex disease, with a variety of approaches available for its treatment. Treatment modalities are often combined to maximize response and to overcome the limitations of individual modalities when used alone. One such example is the combination of...
On January 29 - 30 the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) together with the University of California and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) held technical discussions on radiological risks associated with using cesium-137 irradiators for research and blood...
PURPOSE: The Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) has been developed for conformal microirradiation with on-board cone beam CT (CBCT) guidance. The graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated Superposition-Convolution (SC) method for dose computation has...
Chemotherapy has been successfully used to reduce radiation dose and volume for most pediatric patients. However, because of the failure of chemotherapeutic agents to cross the blood-brain barrier and the lack of response of some brain tumors to these agents,...