Research Articles

Fontenot JD, Lee AK, Newhauser WD. Risk of secondary malignant neoplasms from proton therapy and intensity-modulated x-ray therapy for early-stage prostate cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 74(2):616-22, 6/2009.
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Coutrakon G. Proton Computed Tomography—an NIU, LLUMC, UCSC Collaboration. February 10, 2010. Download PDF

Fontenot JD, Taddei P, Zheng Y, Mirkovic D, Newhauser WD. Ambient dose equivalent versus effective dose for quantifying stray radiation exposures to a patient receiving proton therapy for cancer of the prostate. Nucl Technol 168:173-177, 10/2009.
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Erdelyi B. A comprehensive study of the most likely path formalism for proton-computed tomography. Online stacks.iop.org/PMB/54/005. 24 September 2009. Phys. Med. Biol. 54 (2009) 6095-6122.
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Giebeler A, Fontenot J, Balter P, Ciangaru G, Zhu R, Newhauser W. Dose perturbations from implanted helical gold markers in proton therapy of prostate cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 10(1):63-70, 2009.
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Wong K., Erdelyi B., Schulte R., Bashkirov V., Coutrakon G., Sadrozinski H., Penfold S., Rosenfeld A. The Effect of Tissue Inhomogeneities on the Accuracy of Proton Path Reconstruction for Proton Computed Tomography. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1099 (2009) 476-480.
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Koch N, Newhauser WD. Development and verification of an analytical algorithm to predict absorbed dose distributions in ocular proton therapy using Monte Carlo simulations. Phys Med Biol 55:833-853, 01/2010.
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Bashkirov V., Schulte R., Coutrakon G., Erdelyi B., Wong K., Sadrozinski H., Penfold S., Rosenfeld A., McAllister S., Schubert K. Development of Proton computed Tomography for Applications in Proton Therapy. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1099 (2009) 460-463.
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Newhauser WD, Fontenot JD, Mahajan A, Kornguth D, Stovall M, Zheng Y, Taddei PJ, Mirkovic D, Mohan R, Cox JD, Woo S. The risk of developing a second cancer after receiving craniospinal proton irradiation. Phys Med Biol 54(8):2277-2297, 4/2009. e-Pub 3/2009.
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Newhauser WD, Fontenot JD, Taddei JD, Mirkovic D, Giebeler A, Zhang A, Mahajan A, Kornguth D, Stovall M, Yepes P, Woo S, Mohan R. Contemporary proton therapy systems adequately protect patients from exposure to stray radiation. AIP Proc 1099:450-455, 2009.
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Perez-Andujar A, Newhauser WD, DeLuca PM. Neutron production from beam-modifying devices in a modern double scattering proton therapy beam delivery system. Phys Med Biol 54(4):993-1008, 2/2009. e-Pub 1/2009.
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Perez-Andujar A, Newhauser WD, DeLuca PM. Contribution to Neutron Fluence and Neutron Absorbed Dose from Double Scattering Proton Therapy System Components. Nucl Technol 168(3):728-735, 12/2009
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Randeniya SD, Yepes P, Newhauser WD. Intercomparison of Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Codes MCNPX GEANT4 and FLUKA for Simulating Proton Radiation Therapy of the Eye. Nucl Technol 168(3):810-814, 12/2009.
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Taddei PJ, Mirkovic D, Fontenot JD, Giebeler A, Zheng Y, Kornguth D, Mohan R, Newhauser WD. Stray radiation dose and second cancer risk for a pediatric patient receiving craniospinal irradiation with proton beams. Phys Med Biol 54(8):2259-2275, 4/2009. e-Pub 3/2009.
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Taddei PJ, Mirkovic D, Fontenot JD, Giebeler A, Zheng Y, Titt U, Woo S, Newhauser WD. Reducing stray radiation dose for a pediatric patient receiving proton craniospinal irradiation. Nucl Technol 168:108-112, 10/2009.
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Taddei PJ, Krishnan S, Mirkovic D, Yepes P, Newhauser WD. Effective dose from stray radiation for a patient receiving proton therapy for liver cancer. AIP Proc 1099:445-449, 2009.
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Yepes P, Randeniya S, Taddei PJ, Newhauser WD. A track repeating algorithm for fast Monte Carlo dose calculations of proton radiotherapy: a case study for cancer of prostate. Nucl Technol 168(3):173-177, 12/2009.
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Yepes P, Randeniya S, Taddei PJ, Newhauser WD. Monte Carlo Fast Dose Calculator for proton radiotherapy: application to a voxelized geometry representing a patient with prostate cancer. Phys Med Biol 54(1):N21-N28, 1/2009. e-Pub 12/2008.
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Zhang R, Newhauser WD. Calculation of water equivalent thickness of materials of arbitrary density, elemental composition and thickness in proton beam irradiation. Phys Med Biol 54(6):1383-95, 3/2009. e-Pub 2/2009.
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Zhang R, Taddei PJ, Fitzek MM, Newhauser WD. Water equivalent thickness values of materials used in beams of protons, helium, carbon and iron ions. Phys Med Biol. In Press.
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