Radiotherapy (RT) for head and neck (HN) cancer frequently induces xerostomia due to radiation‑mediated parotid gland damage. Mechanistic modeling of parotid response may improve understanding of toxicity development and enable more biologically informed pred...
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Peter van Luijk, PhD
Therapy Physics
Radiation induced xerostomia is a common adverse sequela among head and neck cancer (HNC) patients with ~45,000 new cases treated with radiation in the US annually. Current guidelines focus on sparing the mean dose to the parotid glands to reduce xerostomia....
Peter van Luijk, PhDRoel J. H. M. Steenbakkers, MD, PhDMaria Irene van Rijn-Dekker, MD, PhD
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Online adaptive proton therapy is limited by the time required for target/OAR re-segmentation and dosimetric review. We developed a contourless patient-specific AI framework to automatically trigger online plan adaptation in oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) patient...
Makbule Atasoyu, PhD, MDDaniele Cannavo, PhDJohannes A. Langendijk, PhD, MDHooman BahrdoStefan Both, PhDGabriel Gutteres Marmitt, PhD
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