…preferred treatment modality for unresectable lesions and avoiding cosmetic disfigurement caused by surgical excision. In their study “Gold nanoparticles as dose-enhancement agent for kilovoltage X-ray therapy of melanoma” Kim SR…
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Xstrahl in Action: Velocity-Based Adaptive Registration and Fusion for Fractionated Stereotactic Radiosurgery
In their study “Velocity-Based Adaptive Registration and Fusion for Fractionated Stereotactic Radiosurgery Using the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform” Paul J. Black, Deborah R. Smith, et al, implement a Velocity-based…
Xstrahl in Action: PD-1 Modulates Radiation-Induced Cardiac Toxicity through Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes
…which is well documented among patients with Hodgkin’s disease and breast cancer. To investigate cardiotoxicity without the compounding pulmonary toxicity from thoracic radiotherapy, Du S, Zhou L, et al, in…
Xstrahl in Action: Radiotherapy Treatment For Post Traumatic Knee Bone Marrow Edema
…tibial head and differ in localization and extent. In their study “Radiotherapy Treatment For Post Traumatic Knee Bone Marrow Edema” Franz Böhler, Valerio d’Arrigo, Patrick Clemens, Raoul Pinter, Robert Tetickovic,…
Xstrahl in Action: The Development of Technology for Effective Respiratory-Gated Irradiation
The development of image-guided small animal irradiators represents a significant improvement over standard irradiators by enabling preclinical studies to mimic radiotherapy in humans. The ability to deliver tightly collimated targeted…
Xstrahl in Action: MRI-based high-precision irradiation treatment planning
Focus has been given to imaging and high-precision irradiation devices for preclinical tumor model development in recent years. Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) including innovative treatment planning techniques comparable to patient…
Xstrahl In Action: SARRP used to develop an optimal craniospinal treatment plan for Medulloblastoma
At the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) researchers announced the development of an efficient and reproducible method to deliver craniospinal irradiation to patient-derived xenograft…
Characterizing Preclinical Proton Therapy With SARRP
…the treatment of cancer (Radiological Use of Fast Protons, Radiology 1946:47:487-91). The first attempts to use protons as treatment for cancer in humans was not attempted until the 1950s at…
Xstrahl in Action: Development and implementation of EPID-based quality assurance tests
…response at different gantry angles, with a maximum variation ≤0.5%. They found close agreement in output factor measurement between the portal imager and reference dosimeters, with maximum differences ≤3% for…
Xstrahl in Action: SARRP used in preclinical evaluation of lung toxicity study
…preclinical studies. Out-of-field effects were observed but did not correlate with dosimetric parameters, suggesting that nontargeted effects may have a role in driving toxicities outside the treatment field. This…