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Radiotherapy of early‐stage breast cancer by Yu, Cedric X.

“…Breast cancer is the most prevalent disease for women. With advances in breast cancer screening, most breast cancers are now diagnosed in the early stages…”
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Is RapidArc more susceptible to delivery uncertainties than dynamic IMRT? by Betzel, Gregory T., Yi, Byong Yong, Niu, Ying, Yu, Cedric X.

“…Purpose: Rotational IMRT has been adopted by many clinics for its promise to deliver treatments in a shorter amount of time than other conventional IMRT…”
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Real-time intra-fraction-motion tracking using the treatment couch: a feasibility study by D'Souza, Warren D, Naqvi, Shahid A, Yu, Cedric X

“…Significant differences between planned and delivered treatments may occur due to respiration-induced tumour motion, leading to underdosing of parts of the…”
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Guidance document on delivery, treatment planning, and clinical implementation of IMRT: Report of the IMRT subcommittee of the AAPM radiation therapy committee by Ezzell, Gary A., Galvin, James M., Low, Daniel, Palta, Jatinder R., Rosen, Isaac, Sharpe, Michael B., Xia, Ping, Xiao, Ying, Xing, Lei, Yu, Cedric X.

“…Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) represents one of the most significant technical advances in radiation therapy since the advent of the medical…”
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High-Dose Spatially Fractionated GRID Radiation Therapy (SFGRT): A Comparison of Treatment Outcomes With Cerrobend vs. MLC SFGRT by Neuner, Geoffrey, M.D, Mohiuddin, Majid M., M.D, Vander Walde, Noam, M.D, Goloubeva, Olga, Ph.D, Ha, Jonathan, Ph.D, Yu, Cedric X., Ph.D, Regine, William F., M.D

“…Purpose Spatially fractionated GRID radiotherapy (SFGRT) using a customized Cerrobend block has been used to improve response rates in patients with bulky…”
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Planning and delivery of intensity-modulated radiation therapy by Yu, Cedric X., Amies, Christopher J., Svatos, Michelle

“…Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is an advanced form of external beam radiation therapy. IMRT offers an additional dimension of freedom as compared…”
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Helical Tomotherapy Versus Single-Arc Intensity-Modulated Arc Therapy: A Collaborative Dosimetric Comparison Between Two Institutions by Rong, Yi, Ph.D, Tang, Grace, Ph.D, Welsh, James S., M.S., M.D, Mohiuddin, Majid M., M.D, Paliwal, Bhudatt, Ph.D, Yu, Cedric X., D.Sc

“…Purpose Both helical tomotherapy (HT) and single-arc intensity-modulated arc therapy (IMAT) deliver radiation using rotational beams with multileaf…”
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Intensity-modulated arc therapy: principles, technologies and clinical implementation by Yu, Cedric X, Tang, Grace

“…Intensity-modulated arc therapy (IMAT) was proposed by Yu (1995 Phys. Med. Biol. 40 1435-49) as an alternative to tomotherapy. Over more than a decade, much…”
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Comparing Radiation Treatments Using Intensity-Modulated Beams, Multiple Arcs, and Single Arcs by Tang, Grace, M.Phil, Earl, Matthew A., Ph.D, Luan, Shuang, Ph.D, Wang, Chao, Ph.D, Mohiuddin, Majid M., M.D, Yu, Cedric X., D.Sc

“…Purpose A dosimetric comparison of multiple static-field intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), multiarc intensity-modulated arc therapy (IMAT), and…”
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Comparative Analysis of the Post-Lumpectomy Target Volume Versus the Use of Pre-Lumpectomy Tumor Volume for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Implications for the Future by Nichols, Elizabeth M., M.D, Dhople, Anil A., M.D, Mohiuddin, Majid M., M.D, Flannery, Todd W., M.D, Yu, Cedric X., D.Sc, Regine, William F., M.D

“…Purpose Three-dimensional conformal accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI-3D-CRT) is commonly associated with the treatment of large amounts of normal…”
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GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo convolution/superposition implementation for dose calculation by Zhou, Bo, Yu, Cedric X., Chen, Danny Z., Hu, X. Sharon

“…Purpose: Dose calculation is a key component in radiation treatment planning systems. Its performance and accuracy are crucial to the quality of treatment…”
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In the future, disruptive innovation in radiation oncology technology will be initiated mostly by entrepreneurs by Yu, Cedric X., Bortfeld, Thomas, Cai, Jing

“…Radiation oncology is a technology-driven treatment modality in the management of cancer, and has evolved substantially over the past few decades. Particularly…”
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Feasibility of delivering grid therapy using a multileaf collimator by Ha, Jonathan K., Zhang, Guowei, Naqvi, Shahid A., Regine, William F., Yu, Cedric X.

“…The feasibility of using a multileaf collimator (MLC) for grid therapy is demonstrated in this study. Grids with the projected field openings of 10 mm × 10 mm…”
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Role of image-guided patient repositioning and online planning in localized prostate cancer IMRT by Lerma, Fritz A, Liu, Bei, Wang, Zhendong, Yi, Byongyong, Amin, Pradip, Liu, Sandy, Feng, Yuanming, Yu, Cedric X

“…Abstract Purpose To determine the expected benefit of image-guided online replanning over image-guided repositioning of localized prostate cancer…”
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On the sources of drift in a turbine-based spirometer by Ha, Jonathan K, Perlow, Daniel B, Yi, Byong Yong, Yu, Cedric X

“…A systematic study on the sources of drift in a turbine-based spirometer (VMM-400) is presented. The study utilized an air-tight cylinder to pump air through…”
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Photon radiotherapy has reached its limit in terms of catching up dosimetrically with proton therapy by Paganetti, Harald, Yu, Cedric X.

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A dose delivery verification method for conventional and intensity-modulated radiation therapy using measured field fluence distributions by Renner, Wendel Dean, Sarfaraz, Mehrdad, Earl, Matthew A., Yu, Cedric X.

“…Treatment verification has been a weak link in external beam radiation therapy. As new and more complicated treatment techniques, such as intensity-modulated…”
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Arc-modulated radiation therapy (AMRT): a single-arc form of intensity-modulated arc therapy by Wang, Chao, Luan, Shuang, Tang, Grace, Chen, Danny Z, Earl, Matt A, Yu, Cedric X

“…Arc-modulated radiation therapy (AMRT) is a novel rotational intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) technique developed for a clinical linear accelerator…”
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Physical aspects of yttrium-90 microsphere therapy for nonresectable hepatic tumors by Sarfaraz, Mehrdad, Kennedy, Andrew S., Cao, Zong J., Sackett, Gregory D., Yu, Cedric X., Lodge, Martin A., Murthy, Ravi, Line, Bruce R., Van Echo, David A.

“…Administration of yttrium-90 microspheres via the hepatic artery is an attractive approach to selectively deliver therapeutic doses of radiation to liver…”
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A new MLC segmentation algorithm/software for step-and-shoot IMRT delivery by Luan, Shuang, Wang, Chao, Chen, Danny Z., Hu, Xiaobo S., Naqvi, Shahid A., Yu, Cedric X., Lee, Chad L.

“…We present a new MLC segmentation algorithm/software for step-and-shoot IMRT delivery. Our aim in this work is to shorten the treatment time by minimizing the…”
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