2026 March - 12 articles
Cancer remains a significant global health burden, often requiring conventional treatments characterized by considerable side effects and limited tumor specificity. This review addresses the critical gap in understanding the non-thermal mechanisms by...
Background/Objectives: Hemangioblastomas are rare, benign, highly vascular tumors of the central nervous system, frequently associated with von Hippel–Lindau (vHL) disease. Case Presentation: We report a 16-year-old female with vHL presenting w...
Introduction: Lattice Radiation Therapy (LRT) is an evolving spatially fractionated radiation therapy (SFRT) technique that delivers heterogeneous dose distributions to large and radioresistant tumors. The literature highlights LRT’s potential...
This retrospective study evaluated patient radiation dose during fluoroscopy-guided peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) placement. A total of 1240 consecutive adult patients who underwent PICC placement between January 2023 and December 202...
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for localized prostate cancer delivers high doses per fraction, making dose constraints for the rectum and other organs at risk critical during treatment planning. This study evaluated the association betwee...
Proton therapy offers superior dose localization, yet the biological effects of low-energy protons relevant to superficial tissues remain underexplored. We report the design and validation of a proton irradiation setup developed at the Tandem Acceler...
Anesthesia is the gold standard for immobilization of tumor-bearing mice before radiotherapy which potentially induces stress and distorts disease progression. Irradiation of preclinical cancer models with clinical MV linear accelerator (LINAC) beams...
Background: One method for the radiation therapy of rectal cancer is to set patients supine and treat them with volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT). The posterior skin dose is of concern due to undesirable bolusing from mounting surfaces the pati...
Background: Interpretation of radiographs is prone to diagnostic errors. Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown promising results in fracture detection, although systematic evaluation of software updates remains limited. This study compares the diagn...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide. Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and quantitative indices (QIs) of computed tomography (CT) are typically used to diagnose COPD. The purpose of this work was t...
Breast cancer remains a major global health challenge, with treatment access further constrained during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in resource-limited settings. This study evaluates the in vitro effects of hypofractionated versus conventiona...
We compared scatter correction (SC) in single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images using effective scatter source estimation (ESSE) and the triple-energy window (TEW) method. We acquired 99mTc and 123I images of brain, myocardial, and p...
