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The Beamline Bulletin
Submissions from 2024
Low contralateral failure rate with unilateral proton beam radiotherapy for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A multi-institutional prospective study from the proton collaborative group, Noah Kalman and Robert Press
Commissioning Intracranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery for a Magnetic Resonance-Guided Radiation Therapy (MRgRT) System: MR-RT Localization and Dosimetric End-to-End Validation, Kathryn Mittauer, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Rupesh Kotecha, Michael Chuong, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Nema Bassiri-Gharb
Accelerated Hypofractionated Magnetic Resonance Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Ultracentral Lung Tumors, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Kathryn Mittauer, Nema Bassiri-Gharb, Amy Rzepczynski, Michael Chuong, Sreenija Yarlagadda, Tugce Kutuk, Nicole McAllister, Matthew Hall, Alonso Gutierrez, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
An Update on H3K27M-altered Diffuse Midline Glioma: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges in Clinical Practice, Eyub Akdemir, Yazmin Odia, Matthew Hall, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Clinical application of an institutional fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (FSRS) program for brain metastases delivered with MRIdian(Ⓡ) BrainTx™, Alonso La Rosa De Los Rios, Kathryn Mittauer, D Jay Wieczorek, Cecilia Lee, Amy Rzepczynski, Michael Chuong, Tugce Kutuk, Nicole McAllister, Matthew Hall, Alonso Gutierrez, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Comparative evaluation of outcomes amongst different radiosurgery management paradigms for patients with large brain metastasis, Tugce Kutuk, Yanjia Zhang, Eyub Akdemir, Sreenija Yarlagadda, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Matthew Hall, Alonso La Rosa De Los Rios, D Jay Wieczorek, Cecilia Lee, Haley Appel, Michael McDermott, Yazmin Odia, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha, and Robert Press
Comparative evaluation of the diagnostic and prognostic performance of CNSide™ versus standard cytology for leptomeningeal disease, Haley Appel, Muni Rubens, Mukesh Roy, Rupesh Kotecha, Matthew Hall, Minesh Mehta, Zhijian Chen, Manmeet Ahluwalia, and Yazmin Odia
Dosimetric comparison of magnetic resonance-guided radiation therapy, intensity-modulated proton therapy and volumetric-modulated arc therapy for distal esophageal cancer, Andrew Barsky, Andrew Wroe, Kathryn Mittauer, Adeel Kaiser, Roberto Herrera, Jen Yu, Alonso Gutierrez, Diane Alvarez, James McCulloch, Michael Kasper, Minesh Mehta, and Michael Chuong
Evaluating the sensitivity of EQ-5D-5L in patients with brain metastases: a secondary analysis of NRG CC001, Minesh Mehta
How proton therapy fits into the management of adult intracranial tumors, Rupesh Kotecha, Alonso La Rosa De Los Rios, and Minesh Mehta
Implications and interchangeability of meningioma biomarkers for clinical trials and clinical practice, Minesh Mehta
In Regard to Trifiletti et al, Rupesh Kotecha and Minesh Mehta
In Reply to Halperin, Minesh Mehta
Multidisciplinary Management of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase-Mutated Gliomas in a Contemporary Molecularly Defined Era, Rupesh Kotecha and Minesh Mehta
NRG-BN002: Phase I Study of Ipilimumab, Nivolumab, and the Combination in Patients with Newly Diagnosed GBM, Minesh Mehta
ONC201 (Dordaviprone) in Recurrent H3 K27M-Mutant Diffuse Midline Glioma, Yazmin Odia and Minesh Mehta
Prophylactic Radiotherapy Of MInimally Symptomatic Spinal Disease (PROMISSeD): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Robert Rothrock, Maria Avendano, Susana Herrera, Haley Appel, Suyen Ramos, Amy Starosciak, Muni Rubens, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Proton Therapy: Current Status and Controversies, Robert Press and Minesh Mehta
Quality assurance of an established online adaptive radiotherapy program: patch and software upgrade, Michael Chuong, Rupesh Kotecha, Yonatan Weiss, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Kathryn Mittauer
SBRT vs. Conventional Radiotherapy for Painful Spinal Metastases: A Comparative Analysis of Randomized Trials and Practical Considerations, Omer Gal, Robert Rothrock, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Selective DRD2 antagonist and ClpP agonist ONC201 in a recurrent non-midline H3 K27M-mutant glioma cohort, Yazmin Odia and Matthew Hall
The First Report of Using Low-Field MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy in a Patient With a Cochlear Implant, James McCulloch, Nema Bassiri Gharb, Alonso Gutierrez, Jennifer Armas, Kevin Abrams, Minesh Mehta, Michael Chuong, and Kathryn Mittauer
The IDH paradox: Meta-analysis of alkylating chemotherapy in IDH-wildtype and -mutant lower grade gliomas, Minesh Mehta
Submissions from 2023
RANO 2.0: Update to the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology Criteria for High- and Low-Grade Gliomas in Adults, Minesh Mehta
A Multi-Institutional Phase II Trial of Ablative 5-Fraction Stereotactic MR-Guided On-Table Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Borderline Resectable and Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer, Kathryn Mittauer and Michael Chuong
Clinical trial implementation: a primer for neurosurgeons, Rupesh Kotecha
Radiation induced taste changes in head and neck cancer - differential impact of treatment factors, Tiffany Nong, Tammy Medrano, Muni Rubens, Adeel Kaiser, and Noah Kalman
Integration and dosimetric validation of a dynamic collimation system for pencil beam scanning proton therapy, Alonso Gutiérrez
Negative Predictive Value of Circulating Tumor Tissue Modified Viral (TTMV)-HPV DNA for HPV-driven Oropharyngeal Cancer Surveillance, Noah Kalman and Sreenija Yarlagadda
Ablative 5-fraction CT- versus MR-guided pancreatic SBRT: dosimetric effects of interfraction anatomic change, Michael Chuong, Adeel Kaiser, Matthew Hall, Rupesh Kotecha, Diane Alvarez, Nema Bassiri-Gharb, Alonso Gutierrez, James McCulloch, Kathryn Mittauer, Nicole McAllister, Ashley Fellows, Amy Rzepczynski, and Will Deere
A comparative evaluation of different radiosurgery management strategies for large brain metastases: What is the optimal treatment paradigm?, Tugce Kutuk, Sreenija Yarlagadda, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Matthew Hall, Anshul Saxena, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Martin Tom, D Jay Wieczorek, Cecilia Lee, Haley Appel, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha, and Mukesh Roy
Characterization of Large Brain Metastases with 18F-Fluciclovine PET/CT Treated with Staged Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SSRS): Phase 1 Proof-of-Concept Interim Analysis, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Surya Chundru, Martin Tom, Tugce Kutuk, D Jay Wieczorek, Muni Rubens, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Michael McDermott, Matthew Hall, Alonso Gutierrez, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Dosimetric evaluation of a novel non-metallic dual port expander for proton therapy, Joseph Panoff, Zachary Fellows, Andrew Wroe, and Kristen McConnell
Integration of an APP-based Neurocognitive Evaluation Program into Stereotactic Radiosurgery Practice: Outcomes and Patient Survey Analysis from a Prospective Observational Study, Tugce Kutuk, Cecilia Lee, Yazmin Odia, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Matthew Hall, Haley Appel, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
"Multi-institutional Experience of Definitive Proton Therapy for Osteosarcoma Acute Toxicities and Outcomes", Keitrina Mair, Katherine Von Werne, Noah Kalman, Michael Chuong, Matthew Hall, and Robert Press
Multi-institutional Experience of Proton Therapy for Rhabdomyosarcoma and Ewing Sarcoma in the Proton Collaborative Group (PCG) Prospective Registry, Katherine Von Werne, Keitrina Mair, Noah Kalman, and Robert Press
Outcomes of MR-guided Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (MRgSBRT) for adrenal metastases: A multi-institutional pooled analysis, Rupesh Kotecha and Tugce Kutuk
Patterns of locoregional failure after ablative 5-fraction stereotactic MR-guided on-table adaptive radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer, Michael Chuong, Nicole McAllister, Surya Chundru, Robert Herrera, Adeel Kaiser, Matthew Hall, Rupesh Kotecha, Kathryn Mittauer, Diane Alvarez, James McCulloch, Nema Bassiri-Gharb, Alonso Gutierrez, Nicolas Carvallo, and Jason Extein
Phase II Trial of Stereotactic MR-guided On-table Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Borderline or Locally Advanced Pacreatic Cancer: Updated Safety & Efficacy Outcomes, Michael Chuong and Kathryn Mittauer
Retrospective Assessment of Surface Imaging Set up Accuracy for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy of Comprehensive Breast Irradiation, Daniel Cho, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, and Andrew Wroe
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Small Intact Brain Metastasis: A Comparative Evaluation Between 3 Single Fraction Prescription Doses, Sreenija Yarlagadda, Tugce Kutuk, Anshul Saxena, Mukesh Roy, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Haley Appel, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Martin Tom, Matthew Hall, D Jay Wieczorek, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (STaRT) for brain metastases: Initial Experience from a Prospective Multi-institutional Registry, Rupesh Kotecha and Michael McDermott
The Anatomy and Evolution of a Quality Proton Plan Check Process: An Institutional Review, Kristen McConnell, Zachary Fellows, Maria Valladares, Lorrie LeGrand, Alonso Gutierrez, and Andrew Wroe
Treatment of Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma with Proton Beam Therapy: Long-term Outcomes from the Proton Collaborative Group Registry, Michael Chuong
Predicting Risk of Distant Brain Failure with Radiosurgery and Systemic Therapy in a Diverse NSCLC Brain Metastasis Population, Sreenija Yarlagadda, Tugce Kutuk, Anshul Saxena PhD, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Haley Appel, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Matthew Hall, D Jay Wieczorek, Cecilia Lee, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Alonso Gutierrez, Minesh Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha, and Mukesh Roy
Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (START) for Recurrent Glioblastoma: Initial Outcomes from a Prospective Multicenter Registry, Ahmad Ozair, Atulya Khosla, Rupesh Kotecha, Michael McDermott, and Manmeet Ahluwalia
Tucatinib, Trastuzumab, and Capecitabine with Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Patients with Brain Metastases from Her-2 Positive Breast Cancer (TUTOR): A Multicenter Phase 1 Clinical Trial, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Atulya Khosla, Ahmad Ozair, Rupesh Kotecha, Michael McDermott, Minesh Mehta, Ana Sandoval Leon, and Reshma Mahtani
Online adaptive radiotherapy: Assessment of planning technique and its impact on longitudinal plan quality robustness in pancreatic cancer, Kathryn Mittauer, Sreenija Yarlagadda, John Bryant, Tino Romaguera, Andres Gomez, Robert Herrera, Rupesh Kotecha, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Michael Chuong
Characterization of large brain metastases with 18F-Fluciclovine PET/CT treated with staged stereotactic radiosurgery (SSRS): interim analysis of a pilot study, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Tugce Kutuk, D Jay Wieczorek, Cecilia Lee, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Michael McDermott, Matthew Hall, Alonso Gutierrez, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Rupesh Kotecha, and Minesh Mehta
Commissioning Intracranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) for an MR-GuidedRadiotherapy (MRgRT) System: MR-RT Localization and Dosimetric End-to-End Validation, Nema Bassiri-Gharb, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Rupesh Kotecha, Michael Chuong, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Kathryn Mittauer
Evaluation of a Flat-Panel Based Compact Daily Quality Assurance Device for PencilBeam Scanning Proton Therapy, Daniel Cho, Eduardo Pons, Alonso Gutierrez, and Andrew Wroe
"Good-Catches Inventory to Interactive Data-Repository: Management and Analysis for Process Improvement", Vibha Chaswal, Cecilia Lee, D Jay Wieczorek, Alonso Gutierrez, and Ranjini Tolakanahalli
Implementation of a TG-224 Compliant, Web-Based QA Program for a Modern Proton Therapy Center, Kristen McConnell, Eduardo Pons, Alonso Gutierrez, Andrew Wroe, and Victor Chirinos
Validation and Commissioning of the new Gamma Knife Vantage Frame, D Jay Wieczorek, Rupesh Kotecha, Cecilia Lee, Matthew Hall, Michael McDermott, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Ranjini Tolakanahalli
Advances in MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy, Michael Chuong
Surgically Targeted Radiation Therapy (STaRT) For Recurrent Brain Metastases: Initial Clinical Experience, Tugce Kutuk, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, D Jay Wieczorek, Haley Appel, Alonso Gutierrez, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Robert Herrera, Michael McDermott, Vitaly Siomin, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
A daily quality assurance test for volumetric repainting using magnetic field regulation , Andrew Wroe, Alonso Gutierrez, Eduardo Pons, and Kristen McConnell
Assessment of set-up accuracy in breast patients treated with proton therapy when using surface imaging as compared to kV-based, Alonso Gutierrez, Andrew Wroe, and Daniel Cho
Dose-escalated proton therapy with concurrent and adjuvant immunotherapy for chordoma: Early results and toxicities from a single institution case series , Matthew Hall, Yazmin Odia, Minesh Mehta, Muni Rubens, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Alonso Gutierrez, Keitrina Mair, Katherine Von Werne, and Carlos Rios
Dosimetric evaluation of prototype non-metallic breast expander for intensity modulated proton therapy , Kristen McConnell, Zachary Fellows, Joseph Panoff, Eduardo Pons, Alonso Gutierrez, Andrew Wroe, and Ryan Zielan
Estimating the risk of developing hypothyroidism in comprehensive breast cancer patients with sensitivity analysis computed from patient-setup and proton-range uncertainties, Andrew Wroe, Marcio Fagundes, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Jen Yu
Multi-institutional experience of proton therapy for osteosarcoma in the Proton Collaborative Group (PCG) prospective registry, Matthew Hall, Keitrina Mair, and Katherine Von Werne
Proton craniospinal irradiation for patients with solid tumor leptomeningeal metastasis: Initial real-world clinical experience, Tugce Kutuk, Haley Appel, Zachary Fellows, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Yazmin Odia, Matthew Hall, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, Rupesh Kotecha, and Sreenija Yarlagadda
Proton craniospinal irradiation for patients with solid tumor leptomeningeal metastasis: Suggested planning approaches for prior irradiation patients, Zachary Fellows, Andrew Wroe, Rupesh Kotecha, Matthew Hall, Minesh Mehta, and Alonso Gutierrez
The Initial Clinical Experience with an Interactive, Multi-Language, App-Based Neurocognitive Evaluation Program for Proton Therapy on CNS Malignancies, Tugce Kutuk, Rupesh Kotecha, Yazmin Odia, Matthew Hall, Haley Appel, Miguel Ramirez Menendez, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Alonso La Rosa de los Rios
Evaluating the Diagnostic Performance of Leptomeningeal Diagnosis with CNSide™ Compared to Standard Cytology, Haley Appel, Anshul Saxena PhD, Rupesh Kotecha, Alexander Mohler, Matthew Hall, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, Yazmin Odia, and Serguei Castaneda
Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation in Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients in the Era of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Manmeet Ahluwalia and Minesh Mehta
A machine learning based-personalized plan selection methodology for reducing skin toxicity in proton pencil beam scanning, Michael Kasper and Suresh Rana
Combination of EGFR-Directed Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (EGFR-TKI) with Radiotherapy in Brain Metastases from Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A 2010-2019 Retrospective Cohort Study, Shreya Saxena, Atulya Khosla, Ahmad Ozair, Rupesh Kotecha, and Manmeet Ahluwalia
Feasibility study of utilizing Sphinx for quality assurance in uniform scanning proton therapy, Suresh Rana
Temporally modulated pulsed proton re-irradiation (TMPPR) for recurrent high-grade gliomas, Alonso La Rosa de los Rios, Alonso Gutierrez, Yazmin Odia, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, and Rupesh Kotecha
Dosimetric Comparison of GammaTile® Implants to Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Recurrent Brain Metastasis Resection Cavities., Robert Herrera, Rupesh Kotecha, D Jay Wieczorek, Zachary Fellows, Vibha Chaswal, Vivek Mishra, Michael McDermott, Vitaly Siomin, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Ranjini Tolakanahalli
GammaTile® brachytherapy versus stereotactic radiotherapy: A dosimetric comparison for the treatment of recurrent brain metastasis resection cavities, Robert Herrera, Rupesh Kotecha, Tugce Kutuk, D Jay Wieczorek, Zachary Fellows, Vibha Chaswal, Vivek Mishra, Michael McDermott, Minesh Mehta, Alonso Gutierrez, and Ranjini Tolakanahalli
Multi-institutional outcomes of proton beam therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma from the Proton Collaborative Group REG001-09 stud, Michael Chuong and Muni Rubens
The A3i System Significantly Reduces Treatment Times for MRLinac Radiotherapy, Robert Herrera, Michael Chuong, Kathryn Mittauer, James McCulloch, Diane Alvarez, Nema Bassiri-Gharb, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Adeel Kaiser, Matthew Hall, Rupesh Kotecha, Minesh Mehta, and Alonso Gutierrez
A Multi-Institutional Phase 2 Trial of Ablative 5-Fraction Stereotactic Magnetic Resonance-Guided On-Table Adaptive Radiation Therapy for Borderline Resectable and Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer, Kathryn Mittauer and Michael Chuong
A novel multi-task hybrid deep neural network (DNN) predicts tumor progression during MRgRT, Kathryn Mittauer and Rupesh Kotecha
Dosimetric evaluation of accelerated partial breast irradiation using SAVI & TRIUMPH-T trial regimen, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Marc Morcos, Tino Romaguera, Alonso Gutierrez, Usha Abraham, Maria-Amelia Rodrigues, and Vibha Chaswal
Dosimetric Evaluation of an MR Linac System compared to Multiple Stereotactic Radiotherapy systems, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Rupesh Kotecha, D Jay Wieczorek, Kathryn Mittauer, Nema Bassiri-Gharb, Matthew Hall, Michael Chuong, Minesh Mehta, Michael McDermott, and Alonso Gutierrez
Evaluation of an interactive, multi-language, neurocognitive app in CNS radiation oncology, Rupesh Kotecha, Tugce Kutuk, Muni Rubens, Yazmin Odia, Matthew Hall, Michael McDermott, Manmeet Ahluwalia, Minesh Mehta, Suyen Ramos, and Miguel Ramirez Menendez
Initial Assessment of Adaptive Pancreas SBRT Treatment Efficiency using ViewRay MRIdian A3i, Kathryn Mittauer, Robert Herrera, James McCulloch, Diane Alvarez, Ranjini Tolakanahalli, Adeel Kaiser, Matthew Hall, Rupesh Kotecha, Minesh Mehta, Michael Chuong, and Nema Bassiri-Gharb