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Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Brachytherapy is a standard component in cervical cancer treatment. Venezia applicators allow addition of limited needle positions to tandem and ovoid procedures, but needle selection and insertion depth largely rely on physician judgement, requiring some lev...
To determine whether adjusting MLC blocking of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) in left breast radiotherapy plans can reduce heart and LAD doses and improve plan robustness while maintaining desired target coverage.
Teaching medical physics to radiation oncology residents is challenging, given their limited foundational training in physics, competing clinical demands, and inconsistent motivation beyond preparation for the ABR physics examination. Meanwhile, clinical medi...
Breast patients treated with intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) often experience more severe skin dose toxicity compared to those with photon 3DCRT. Here we quantitatively estimated the LET-dependent RBE (LET-RBE) vs clinically used constant RBE=1.1 fo...