BioMed Research International

Technical Advancement of Radiation Therapy


Publishing date
04 Oct 2013
Status
Published
Submission deadline
17 May 2013

Lead Editor

1Medical Physics & Informatics Laboratory, Department of Electronics Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute for Advanced Radiation Oncology, Monmouth Medical center, Barnabas Health, Long Branch, NJ, USA

3Department of Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

4Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

5Medical Physics Department, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 136 Mountain View Boulevard, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, USA

6Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA


Technical Advancement of Radiation Therapy

Description

In medical world, radiation oncology is uniquely positioned itself as the "High Tech Medicine". Radiation oncology has made tremendous progress for the past decade by merging high energy physics, computing technology, and advanced radiation calculation algorithms along with many new inventions of delivery techniques. Improvement made by this medical specialty not only provides substantial cancer survival outcome but also reduce the patient complication treated from the conventional cancer care methods. Integration of radiation therapy technologies to manage tumor control certainly creates important scientific interests with modern science.

The main focus of this special issue will be focusing on the new development in cancer treatment, quality control, treatment techniques, and radiation dosimetry with related topics. The special issue will become an international forum for researchers to summarize the most recent developments and ideas in radiation oncology, with a special emphasis given to the clinical progress with new technologies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Clinical trials and outcome research
  • New technologies development and implementation
  • Treatment delivery techniques
  • Disease-specific treatment discussion
  • Radiation dosimetry analysis
  • Radiation protection, shielding, and design
  • Clinical therapy physics review and applications
  • Molecular imaging application in radiation therapy
  • Medical imaging
  • Professional issues in medical, clinical, and biomedical physics
  • Radiobiology
  • Quality control and assurance
  • Computing algorithm and optimization
  • Quality of life analysis
  • Radiation safety

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2014
  • - Article ID 797412
  • - Editorial

Technical Advancement of Radiation Therapy

Tsair-Fwu Lee | Jack Yang | ... | An Liu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2014
  • - Article ID 485067
  • - Research Article

Investigating the Feasibility of Rapid MRI for Image-Guided Motion Management in Lung Cancer Radiotherapy

Amit Sawant | Paul Keall | ... | Sarang Joshi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 701514
  • - Research Article

Contour Propagation Using Feature-Based Deformable Registration for Lung Cancer

Yuhan Yang | Shoujun Zhou | ... | Yaoqin Xie
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 461801
  • - Research Article

A Light-Field-Based Method to Adjust On-Axis Rounded Leaf End MLC Position to Predict Off-Axis MLC Penumbra Region Dosimetric Performance in a Radiation Therapy Planning System

Jia-Ming Wu | Tsair-Fwu Lee | ... | Yi-Ting Chen
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 532936
  • - Research Article

Interactive Multigrid Refinement for Deformable Image Registration

Wu Zhou | Yaoqin Xie
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 401261
  • - Review Article

The Treatment Outcome and Radiation-Induced Toxicity for Patients with Head and Neck Carcinoma in the IMRT Era: A Systematic Review with Dosimetric and Clinical Parameters

Vassilis Kouloulias | Stella Thalassinou | ... | Kelekis Nikolaos
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 657259
  • - Research Article

Effect of Adjuvant Magnetic Fields in Radiotherapy on Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Cells In Vitro

Jianguo Feng | Huaying Sheng | ... | Shenglin Ma
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 568597
  • - Research Article

Development of a Modelling to Correlate Site and Diameter of Brain Metastases with Hippocampal Sparing Using Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy

Silvia Chiesa | Mario Balducci | ... | Vincenzo Valentini
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 436979
  • - Research Article

Evaluation of Wall Correction Factor of INER's Air-Kerma Primary Standard Chamber and Dose Variation by Source Displacement for HDR 192Ir Brachytherapy

J. H. Lee | J. N. Wang | ... | S. M. Hsu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 717589
  • - Research Article

Helical Irradiation of the Total Skin with Dose Painting to Replace Total Skin Electron Beam Therapy for Therapy-Refractory Cutaneous CD4+ T-Cell Lymphoma

Chen-Hsi Hsieh | Pei-Wei Shueng | ... | Yu-Jen Chen
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