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Irradiated Volume as a Predictor of Brain Radionecrosis After Linear Accelerator Stereotactic Radiosurgery by Blonigen, Brian J., M.D, Steinmetz, Ryan D., M.D, Levin, Linda, Ph.D, Lamba, Michael A., Ph.D, Warnick, Ronald E., M.D, Breneman, John C., M.D

“…Purpose To investigate the correlation between volume of brain irradiated by stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and the incidence of symptomatic and asymptomatic…”
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Measuring the photon depth dose distribution produced by a medical linear accelerator in a water-equivalent radio-fluorogenic gel by Sandwall, Peter A., Spitz, Henry B., Elson, Howard R., Lamba, Michael A. S., Connick, William B., Fenichel, Henry

“…The present work describes use of a water-equivalent radio-fluorogenic gel dosimeter for measurement of a depth dose distribution from a medical linear…”
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Reconstruction of thermoacoustic emission sources induced by proton irradiation using numerical time reversal by Mast, T Douglas, Johnstone, David A, Dumoulin, Charles L, Lamba, Michael A, Patch, Sarah K

“…Mapping of dose delivery in proton beam therapy can potentially be performed by analyzing thermoacoustic emissions measured by ultrasound arrays. Here, a…”
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AAPM Report 373: The content, structure, and value of the Professional Doctorate in Medical Physics (DMP) by Burmeister, Jay W., Coffey, Charles W., Hazle, John D., Kirby, Neil, Kuang, Yu, Lamba, Michael A., Loughery, Brian, Papanikolaou, Niko

“…The Professional Doctorate in Medical Physics (DMP) was originally conceived as a solution to the shortage of medical physics residency training positions…”
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Proton Treatment Suppresses Exosome Production in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Chimote, Ameet A, Lehn, Maria A, Bhati, Jay, Mascia, Anthony E, Sertorio, Mathieu, Lamba, Michael A, Ionascu, Dan, Tang, Alice L, Langevin, Scott M, Khodoun, Marat V, Wise-Draper, Trisha M, Conforti, Laura

“…Proton therapy (PT) is emerging as an effective and less toxic alternative to conventional X-ray-based photon therapy (XRT) for patients with advanced head and…”
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AAPM WGPDMP Report 373: The content, structure, and value of the Professional Doctorate in Medical Physics (DMP) by Burmeister, Jay W., Coffey, Charles W., Hazle, John D., Kirby, Neil, Kuang, Yu, Lamba, Michael A., Loughery, Brian, Papanikolaou, Niko

“…The Professional Doctorate in Medical Physics (DMP) was originally conceived as a solution to the shortage of medical physics residency training positions…”
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Measurement of low‐energy backscatter factors using GAFCHROMIC film and OSLDs by Mart, Chris J., Elson, Howard R., Lamba, Michael A. S.

“…Some of the lowest voltages used in radiotherapy are termed Grenz and superficial X‐rays of ~ 20 and ~ 100 kVp, respectively. Dosimetrically, the surface doses…”
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Target definition for malignant gliomas: No difference in radiation treatment volumes between 1.5T and 3T magnetic resonance imaging by Guarnaschelli, Jess N., Vagal, Achala S., McKenzie, Joshua T., McPherson, Christopher M., Warnick, Ronald E., Batra, Vivek, Breneman, John C., Lamba, Michael A.

“…Currently, most high-grade glioma patients undergo a 1.5T brain magnetic resonance (MR) for radiation treatment planning. We hypothesized that 3T MR imaging…”
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Analysis of peripheral doses for base of tongue treatment by linear accelerator and helical TomoTherapy IMRT by Bennett, Brian Richard, Lamba, Michael A. S., Elson, Howard R.

“…The purpose of this study was to compare the peripheral doses to various organs from a typical head and neck intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)…”
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Reconstruction of thermoacoustic emission sources from proton irradiation using numerical time reversal by Mast, T. Douglas, Johnstone, David A., Dumoulin, Charles L., Lamba, Michael A., Patch, Sarah K.

“…Dose delivery in proton beam therapy for cancer treatment can be mapped by analyzing thermoacoustic emissions measured by ultrasound arrays. Here, a method is…”
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Photoacoustic tomography in a clinical linear accelerator for quantitative radiation dosimetry by Johnstone, David A., Cox, Michael T., Ionascu, Dan, Lamba, Michael A., Dumoulin, Charles L., Mast, T. Douglas

“…Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Approximately half of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy, in which linear…”
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Axillary lymph node coverage of tangent radiotherapy: Comparison of supine versus prone positioning by Thompson, Gregory M., Lavigne, Ruth F., Dimascio, Mark, Bohorquez, Carlos, Lamba, Michael A. S.

“…Abstract only 200 Background: Recent randomized evidence has demonstrated low rates of axillary nodal failure in patients with one to two positive lymph nodes…”
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A comparison of the effectiveness of thermoluminescent crystals LiF:Mg,Ti, and LiF:Mg,Cu,P for clinical dosimetry by Harris, Christie K., Elson, Howard R., Lamba, Michael A. S., Foster, Alvis E.

“…This study compared the relative effectiveness of TLD crystals LiF:Mg,Ti (TLD-100) and LiF:Mg,Cu,P (TLD-700H) for clinical dosimetry, focusing on…”
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Radiation dose mapping using magnetic resonance imaging in a superheated emulsion chamber by Lamba, Michael A. S

“…This work describes the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques and image processing algorithms developed for radiation dosimetry with the superheated…”
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A Monte Carlo brachytherapy study for dose distribution prediction in an inhomogeneous medium by Slate, Lawrence J, Elson, Howard R, Lamba, Michael A S, Kassing, William M, Soldano, Michael, Barrett, William L

“…The purpose of this study was to present a theoretical analysis of how the presence of bone in interstitial brachytherapy affects dose rate distributions. This…”
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Radiation dose mapping using magnetic resonance imaging in a superheated emulsion chamber by Lamba, Michael A. S

“…This work describes the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques and image processing algorithms developed for radiation dosimetry with the superheated…”
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A self-collimating convolution backprojection algorithm for optimizing dose distributions of I-125 prostate implants by Siochi, R. Alfredo C., Elson, Howard R., Foster, Alvis E., Lamba, Michael A.

“…The algorithm presented here for optimizing brachytherapy dose distributions is based on the idea that the seed distribution can be modeled as an activity…”
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A method to reduce systematic spatial shift associated with magnetic resonance imaging by Taha, J M, Lamba, M A, Samaratunga, C, Breneman, J C, Warnick, R E

“…To reduce the chemical shifts during magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, the authors replaced the petroleum gel in the Brown-Roberts-Well (BRW) MR localizer with…”
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