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Tang X, Lian J, Chang S, Xu Z, Halle J, Jones E, Marks L. WE-C-BRA-04: Left Breast Deep Inspiration Breath Hold Treatment Based on 3D Surface Matching. Med Phys 2011. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3613319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Marks L, Cave S, Wallace A, Mason A, Hunter DJ, Mason JM, Peckham S. Incentivizing preventive services in primary care: perspectives on Local Enhanced Services. J Public Health (Oxf) 2011; 33:556-64. [DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Jackson A, Marks L. TU-A-203-01: QUANTEC and the Clinical Physicist. Med Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3469161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Seger J, Marks L, Das S. SU-GG-T-491: Identifying Patients Who Will Potentially Benefit from Functional-Guided Lung Avoidance in Thoracic Radiotherapy. Med Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3468889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Kelsey C, Chino J, Craciunescu O, Steffey B, Rizzieri D, Horwitz M, Long G, Chao N, Marks L. Severe Pulmonary Toxicity after Myeloablative Conditioning using Total Body Irradiation: An Assessment of Possible Predictive Factors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.1091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Haken RT, Bentzen S, Constine L, Eisbruch A, Deasy J, Jackson A, Marks L, Yorke E. SU-FF-T-499: Quantitative Analysis of Normal Tissue Effects in the Clinic (QUANTEC): Limits and Recommendations for Use in Treatment Planning. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3181997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Das S, Chen S, Yin F, Marks L. SU-FF-T-498: Improving Normal Tissue Complication Probability Fits Using Non-Binary Outcomes. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3181996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Chang S, Deschesne K, Chen H, Weeks K, Sibata C, Carey E, Hill P, Mackie T, Marks L. SU-FF-T-137: IMRT Treatment Delivery Efficiency - A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Study. Med Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1118/1.3181611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Harrington BE, Smith KE, Hunter DJ, Marks L, Blackman TJ, McKee L, Greene A, Elliott E, Williams GH. Health inequalities in England, Scotland and Wales: stakeholders' accounts and policy compared. Public Health 2008; 123:e24-8. [PMID: 19084881 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The election of a Labour government in 1997 brought the issue of health inequalities firmly back on to the policy agenda across the UK. Since then, in the wake of devolution, the need to tackle health inequalities has been highlighted as a policy priority in all three mainland UK countries, albeit with varying degrees of emphasis. This paper reports on a major cross-national study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, investigating how National Health Service bodies, local councils and partnerships make sense of their work on health inequalities, and examining the difference made by the contrasting approaches that have been taken to performance assessment in England, Wales and Scotland. STUDY DESIGN Case studies, semi-structured interviews and analysis of key policy statements. METHODS In order to explore how health inequalities have been approached by the three governments (noting that there was a change in governments in Wales and Scotland during this time), key policy statements published between May 1997 and May 2007 were analysed. Concurrently, data from stakeholder interviews carried out in 2006 in case study areas in each country were analysed to determine the extent of alignment between policy and practice at local level. RESULTS This paper suggests that claims about the extent of health policy divergence in post-devolution Britain may have been exaggerated. It finds that, whilst the three countries have taken differing approaches to performance assessment and the setting of targets, policy approaches to health inequalities up until 2007 appear to have been remarkably similar. Furthermore, the first round of interview data suggest that variations in local understandings of, and responses to, health inequalities cannot always be clearly distinguished along national lines. CONCLUSIONS Based on the policy analysis, devolution in the UK does not appear to have resulted in substantively different national policy approaches to health inequalities. Indeed, the overall analysis suggests that (prior to the 2007 elections in Scotland and Wales) the differences between local areas within countries may be of as much interest as those between countries.
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Chen S, Zhou S, Hubbs J, Wong T, Borges-Neto S, Yin F, Marks L, Das S. Using the Consensus of Different Models to Predict Radiotherapy (RT)-induced Cardiac Perfusion Defects. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.06.917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Roper J, Manzoor A, Bowsher J, Yin F, Zhou S, Wong T, Borges-Neto S, Hubbs J, Demirci S, Marks L. Are Post-RT Cardiac Perfusion Defects Due to Cardiac Toxicity, or are they Artifacts from Attenuation Changes in Surrounding Soft Tissues? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.06.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Yoo S, Boyd J, Das S, Yin F, Jones E, Light K, Marks L. Inverse IMRT Planning for Breast Cancer with “Limited Regional Metastatic Cancer” Involving the Ipsilateral Anterior Mediastinal Nodes. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.06.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Reese A, Das S, Marks L. TU-D-AUD B-05: Quantifying the Dosimetric Trade-Offs When Treating Targets with Concavities Using IMRT. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2962577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Zhou S, Das S, Yin F, Yoo S, Lee W, Yan H, Wu Q, Wang Z, Marks L. SU-GG-J-81: Efficacy of Patient Setup Correction Procedure in Prostate Radiotherapy. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2961631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Chen S, Zhou S, Hubbs J, Wong T, Borges-Neto S, Yin F, Marks L, Das S. WE-C-AUD B-05: Predicting Radiation-Induced Cardiac Perfusion Defects Using a Fusion Model. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2962692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Das S, Chen S, Zhou S, Yin FF, Deasy J, Marks L. SU-GG-T-406: Improving Lung Radiation-Pneumonitis Prediction by Combining Different Models. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2962155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Das S, Marks L, Yin FF. MO-D-351-07: A System to Dynamically Balance Dose Sparing Between Critical Structures in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2962358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Wright DA, Marks L, Payne RC. A comparative study of the physiological costs of walking in ten bilateral amputees. Prosthet Orthot Int 2008; 32:57-67. [PMID: 18330804 DOI: 10.1080/03093640701669108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The physiological cost of walking is greater in bilateral amputees (BA) than in both unilateral amputee and non-pathological gait. The aim of this study was to describe the physiological costs and other standard gait characteristics in a sample population of BA, walking at self-selected (comfortable) speeds. Amputees had bilateral trans-tibial, bilateral trans-femoral or trans-tibial/trans-femoral amputations as a result of trauma or congenital defects. All amputees wore their own prosthetic limbs which were either full-length prostheses or short non-articulating pylon prostheses (SNAPPs). The results were compared with a base line data set collected from a non-pathological control group. It was anticipated that amputees with high-level amputations would walk at the slowest speeds, have the highest physiological costs and lowest perception of walking ability. However, varying walking speeds resulted in varying exercise intensities, exercise heart rates and perceptions of walking that could not be directly related to amputation levels. It is therefore concluded that bilateral amputee gait is complex, varied and not easily categorized.
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Boyd J, Kim D, Hubbs J, Marks L, Kelsey C. Timing of Local Versus Distant Failure in Patients With Early-Stage Lung Cancer: Is the Risk of Local Failure Underreported? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Yoo D, Wang Z, Nelson J, Kirkpatrick J, Yoo S, Wu J, Meyer J, Larrier N, Marks L, Yin F. Improved Target Localization With 3D Cone Beam CT On-Board Imaging in Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Larrier N, Miles E, Hubbs J, Ma J, Yoo S, Marks L. Moderate Dose IMRT for Resected Mesothelioma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.1737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Marks L, Kittel K, Kurz H, Roos E, Vajna S, Ziegmann G. Optimierung und Berechnung von Losflanschverbindungen aus GFK. CHEM-ING-TECH 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/cite.200750034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Das S, Zhou S, Yin F, Zhang J, Marks L. SU-FF-T-88: Augmenting Lyman NTCP by Adding the Influence of Non-Dose Variables Via Decision Trees: Application to Lung Radiation-Pneumonitis Prediction. Med Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2760741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Marks L. TU-E-M100F-01: PET and SPECT Imaging in Treatment Planning Optimization. Med Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2761435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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