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Wegener D, Pérez-Bitrián A, Limberg N, Wiesner A, Hoffmann KF, Hasenstab-Riedel S. A Highly Sterically Encumbered Boron Lewis Acid Enabled by a Organotellurium-based Ligand. Chemistry 2024:e202401231. [PMID: 38625061 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2024] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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Lewis acidic boron compounds are ubiquitous in chemistry due to their numerous applications, yet tuning and optimizing their properties towards different purposes is still a challenging field of research. In this work, the boron Lewis acid B[OTeF3(C6F5)2]3 was synthesized by reaction of the teflate derivative HOTeF3(C6F5)2 with BCl3 or BCl3·SMe2. This new compound presents a remarkably high thermal stability up to 300 °C, as well as one of the most sterically encumbered boron centres known in the literature. Theoretical and experimental methods revealed that B[OTeF3(C6F5)2]3 exhibits a comparable Lewis acidity to that of the well-known B(C6F5)3 and around 85% of the Lewis acidity of the related B(OTeF5)3. The affinity of B[OTeF3(C6F5)2]3 towards pyridine was accessed by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC) and compared to that of B(OTeF5)3 and B(C6F5)3. The ligand-transfer reactivity of this new boron compound towards different fluorides was demonstrated by the formation of an anionic Au(III) complex and a hypervalent iodine(III) species.
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- Daniel Wegener
- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, GERMANY
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, GERMANY
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, GERMANY
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, GERMANY
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- FU Berlin: Freie Universitat Berlin, Institut fuer Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Fabeckstrasse 34-36, 14195, Berlin, GERMANY
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Fink CA, Wegener D, Sauer LD, Lentz-Hommertgen A, Liermann J, Müller AC, Zips D, Debus J, Herfarth K, Koerber SA. Pelvic Irradiation for Node-Positive Prostate Cancer After Prostatectomy: Long-Term Results of the Prospective PLATIN-4 and PLATIN-5 Trials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2024; 118:1011-1017. [PMID: 37863242 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023]
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PURPOSE After radical prostatectomy (RP), adjuvant or salvage radiation treatment in node-positive prostate cancer is offered to prevent systemic disease. Prospective long-term survival and toxicity data on patients with radiation for nodal disease are still scarce. This study evaluates safety and feasibility of salvage radiation therapy to the pelvic lymph nodes in node-positive prostate cancer after RP. METHODS AND MATERIALS Between 2009 and 2018, 78 patients with lymph node recurrence after RP (PLATIN-4 trial) or after RP and prostate bed radiation therapy (PLATIN-5 trial) were treated with salvage pelvic lymph node radiation therapy with boost to the involved nodes as field abutment (PLATIN-5) and boost to the prostate bed (PLATIN-4). Androgen deprivation therapy was started 2 months before radiation and recommended for 24 months. The primary endpoint was safety and feasibility of the intensity modulated radiation therapy-image guided radiation therapy technique based on the rate of treatment discontinuations and incidence of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events grade 3+ toxicity. Secondary endpoints were progression-free survival and overall survival. RESULTS No treatment discontinuations were reported in either trial. Median overall survival was not reached in PLATIN-4 and was 117 months in PLATIN-5. Median progression-free survival was 66 months in PLATIN-4 and 39 months in PLATIN-5. Late grade 3+ genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicities were observed in 4% of patients at 24 months of follow-up. CONCLUSIONS Salvage radiation therapy to the prostate bed and pelvic lymphatic drainage combined with long-term androgen deprivation therapy is a curative treatment option for patients with node-positive prostate cancer after RP, with excellent in-field disease control. Pelvic lymph node radiation therapy as field abutment after prostate bed radiation therapy is feasible with long-term survival and no high-grade toxicity.
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- Christoph A Fink
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- University of Heidelberg, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany; Clinical Cooperation Unit, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany; National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Radiation Oncology, Barmherzige Brueder Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Fink CA, Wegener D, Sauer LD, Jäkel C, Zips D, Debus J, Herfarth K, Koerber SA. Whole-pelvic irradiation with boost to involved nodes and prostate in node-positive prostate cancer-long-term data from the prospective PLATIN-2 trial. Strahlenther Onkol 2024; 200:202-207. [PMID: 37640867 PMCID: PMC10876493 DOI: 10.1007/s00066-023-02129-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/23/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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PURPOSE Node-positive prostate cancer is a potentially curable disease. Definitive radiotherapy to the prostate and lymphatic drainage is an effective treatment option but prospective long-term outcome data are scarce. Thus, the current study aimed to evaluate the toxicity and efficacy of definitive radiation therapy for men with prostate cancer and nodal metastases using modern irradiation techniques. METHODS A total of 40 treatment-naïve men with node-positive prostate cancer were allocated to the trial. All patients received definitive radiation therapy at two German university hospitals between 2009 and 2018. Radiation was delivered as intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) with 51 Gy to the lymphatic drainage with simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) up to 61.2 Gy to involved nodes and 76.5 Gy to the prostate in 34 fractions. Feasibility and safety, overall and progression-free survival, toxicity, and quality of life measurements were analyzed. RESULTS During a median follow-up of 79 months, median overall survival was 107 months and progression-free survival was 78 months. Based on imaging follow-up, no infield relapse was reported during the first 24 months of follow-up. There were 3 (8%) potentially treatment-related grade 3 toxicities. Common iliac node involvement was associated with a higher risk of progression (HR 15.8; 95% CI 2.1-119.8; p = 0.007). CONCLUSION Definitive radiation to the lymphatic drainage with SIB to the involved nodes and prostate is a safe and effective treatment approach for patients with treatment-naïve, node-positive prostate cancer with excellent infield tumor control rates and tolerable toxicity. Location rather than number of involved nodes is a major risk factor for progression.
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- C A Fink
- Department of Radiation Oncology, INF 400, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Heidelberg Institute for Radiooncology (HIRO), INF 400, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
- INF 460, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
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- University of Heidelberg, INF 130.3, Institute of Medical Biometry (IMBI), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, INF 400, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Heidelberg Institute for Radiooncology (HIRO), INF 400, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, INF 400, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Heidelberg Institute for Radiooncology (HIRO), INF 400, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- INF 460, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Clinical Cooperation Unit, INF 280, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- INF 450, Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center (HIT), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, INF 400, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Heidelberg Institute for Radiooncology (HIRO), INF 400, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- INF 460, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Clinical Cooperation Unit, INF 280, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, INF 400, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Heidelberg Institute for Radiooncology (HIRO), INF 400, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- INF 460, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Barmherzige Brueder Hospital Regensburg, Pruefeninger Straße 86, 93049, Regensburg, Germany
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Tengler B, Künzel LA, Hagmüller M, Mönnich D, Boeke S, Wegener D, Gani C, Zips D, Thorwarth D. Full daily re-optimization improves plan quality during online adaptive radiotherapy. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 2024; 29:100534. [PMID: 38298884 PMCID: PMC10827578 DOI: 10.1016/j.phro.2024.100534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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Background and purpose Daily online treatment plan adaptation requires a fast workflow and planning process. Current online planning consists of adaptation of a predefined reference plan, which might be suboptimal in cases of large anatomic changes. The aim of this study was to investigate plan quality differences between the current online re-planning approach and a complete re-optimization. Material and methods Magnetic resonance linear accelerator reference plans for ten prostate cancer patients were automatically generated using particle swarm optimization (PSO). Adapted plans were created for each fraction using (1) the current re-planning approach and (2) full PSO re-optimization and evaluated overall compliance with institutional dose-volume criteria compared to (3) clinically delivered fractions. Relative volume differences between reference and daily anatomy were assessed for planning target volumes (PTV60, PTV57.6), rectum and bladder and correlated with dose-volume results. Results The PSO approach showed significantly higher adherence to dose-volume criteria than the reference approach and clinical fractions (p < 0.001). In 74 % of PSO plans at most one criterion failed compared to 56 % in the reference approach and 41 % in clinical plans. A fair correlation between PTV60 D98% and relative bladder volume change was observed for the reference approach. Bladder volume reductions larger than 50 % compared to the reference plan recurrently decreased PTV60 D98% below 56 Gy. Conclusion Complete re-optimization maintained target coverage and organs at risk sparing even after large anatomic variations. Re-planning based on daily magnetic resonance imaging was sufficient for small variations, while large variations led to decreasing target coverage and organ-at-risk sparing.
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- Benjamin Tengler
- Section for Biomedical Physics. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Dresden, Germany: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany
- Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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Pérez-Bitrián A, Munárriz J, Sturm JS, Wegener D, Krause KB, Wiesner A, Limberg C, Riedel S. Further Perspectives on the Teflate versus Fluoride Analogy: The Case of a Co(II) Pentafluoroorthotellurate Complex. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:12947-12953. [PMID: 37505485 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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The pentafluoroorthotellurate group (teflate, OTeF5) is considered as a bulky analogue of fluoride, yet its coordination behavior in transition metal complexes is not fully understood. By reaction of [CoCl4]2- and neat ClOTeF5, we synthesized the first cobalt teflate complex, [Co(OTeF5)4]2-, which exhibits moisture-resistant Co-OTeF5 bonds. Through a combined experimental and theoretical (DFT and NEVPT2) study, the properties and electronic structure of this species have been investigated. It exhibits a distorted tetrahedral structure around the cobalt center and can be described as a d7 system with a quartet (S = 3/2) ground state. A comparative bonding analysis of the (pseudo)tetrahedral [CoX4]2- anions (X = OTeF5, F, Cl) revealed that the strength of the Co-X interaction is similar in the three cases, being the strongest in [Co(OTeF5)4]2-. In addition, an analysis of the charge of the Co center reinforced the similar electron-withdrawing properties of the teflate and fluoride ligands. Therefore, the [Co(OTeF5)4]2- anion constitutes an analogue of the polymeric [CoF4]2- in terms of electronic properties, but with a monomeric structure.
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- Alberto Pérez-Bitrián
- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus Universitario de El Cristo, Julián Clavería no. 8, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Almansour H, Schick F, Nachbar M, Afat S, Fritz V, Thorwarth D, Zips D, Bertram F, Müller AC, Nikolaou K, Othman AE, Wegener D. Longitudinal monitoring of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) in patients with prostate cancer undergoing MR-guided radiotherapy on an MR-Linac at 1.5 T: a prospective feasibility study. Radiol Oncol 2023; 57:184-190. [PMID: 37341194 DOI: 10.2478/raon-2023-0020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Hybrid MRI linear accelerators (MR-Linac) might enable individualized online adaptation of radiotherapy using quantitative MRI sequences as diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). The purpose of this study was to investigate the dynamics of lesion apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in patients with prostate cancer undergoing MR-guided radiation therapy (MRgRT) on a 1.5T MR-Linac. The ADC values at a diagnostic 3T MRI scanner were used as the reference standard. PATIENTS AND AND METHODS In this prospective single-center study, patients with biopsy-confirmed prostate cancer who underwent both an MRI exam at a 3T scanner (MRI3T) and an exam at a 1.5T MR-Linac (MRL) at baseline and during radiotherapy were included. Lesion ADC values were measured by a radiologist and a radiation oncologist on the slice with the largest lesion. ADC values were compared before vs. during radiotherapy (during the second week) on both systems via paired t-tests. Furthermore, Pearson correlation coefficient and inter-reader agreement were computed. RESULTS A total of nine male patients aged 67 ± 6 years [range 60 - 67 years] were included. In seven patients, the cancerous lesion was in the peripheral zone, and in two patients the lesion was in the transition zone. Inter-reader reliability regarding lesion ADC measurement was excellent with an intraclass correlation coefficient of (ICC) > 0.90 both at baseline and during radiotherapy. Thus, the results of the first reader will be reported. In both systems, there was a statistically significant elevation of lesion ADC during radiotherapy (mean MRL-ADC at baseline was 0.97 ± 0.18 × 10-3 mm2/s vs. mean MRL-ADC during radiotherapy 1.38 ± 0.3 × 10-3 mm2/s, yielding a mean lesion ADC elevation of 0.41 ± 0.20 × 10-3 mm2/s, p < 0.001). Mean MRI3T-ADC at baseline was 0.78 ± 0.165 × 10-3 mm2/s vs. mean MRI3T-ADC during radiotherapy 0.99 ± 0.175 × 10-3 mm2/s, yielding a mean lesion ADC elevation of 0.21 ± 0.96 × 10-3 mm2/s p < 0.001). The absolute ADC values from MRL were consistently significantly higher than those from MRI3T at baseline and during radiotherapy (p < = 0.001). However, there was a strong positive correlation between MRL-ADC and MRI3T-ADC at baseline (r = 0.798, p = 0.01) and during radiotherapy (r = 0.863, p = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS Lesion ADC as measured on MRL increased significantly during radiotherapy and ADC measurements of lesions on both systems showed similar dynamics. This indicates that lesion ADC as measured on the MRL may be used as a biomarker for evaluation of treatment response. In contrast, absolute ADC values as calculated by the algorithm of the manufacturer of the MRL showed systematic deviations from values obtained on a diagnostic 3T MRI system. These preliminary findings are promising but need large-scale validation. Once validated, lesion ADC on MRL might be used for real-time assessment of tumor response in patients with prostate cancer undergoing MR-guided radiation therapy.
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- Haidara Almansour
- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Radiology, Department of Radiology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Radiology, Department of Radiology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tuebingen and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tuebingen and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
- Department of Radiation Oncology, RKH Klinikum Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
- Department of Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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Nachbar M, Lo Russo M, Gani C, Boeke S, Wegener D, Paulsen F, Zips D, Roque T, Paragios N, Thorwarth D. Automatic AI-based contouring of prostate MRI for online adaptive radiotherapy. Z Med Phys 2023:S0939-3889(23)00053-3. [PMID: 37263911 DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2023.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MR-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) online plan adaptation accounts for tumor volume changes, interfraction motion and thus allows daily sparing of relevant organs at risk. Due to the high interfraction variability of bladder and rectum, patients with tumors in the pelvic region may strongly benefit from adaptive MRgRT. Currently, fast automatic annotation of anatomical structures is not available within the online MRgRT workflow. Therefore, the aim of this study was to train and validate a fast, accurate deep learning model for automatic MRI segmentation at the MR-Linac for future implementation in a clinical MRgRT workflow. MATERIALS AND METHODS For a total of 47 patients, T2w MRI data were acquired on a 1.5 T MR-Linac (Unity, Elekta) on five different days. Prostate, seminal vesicles, rectum, anal canal, bladder, penile bulb, body and bony structures were manually annotated. These training data consisting of 232 data sets in total was used for the generation of a deep learning based autocontouring model and validated on 20 unseen T2w-MRIs. For quantitative evaluation the validation set was contoured by a radiation oncologist as gold standard contours (GSC) and compared in MATLAB to the automatic contours (AIC). For the evaluation, dice similarity coefficients (DSC), and 95% Hausdorff distances (95% HD), added path length (APL) and surface DSC (sDSC) were calculated in a caudal-cranial window of ± 4 cm with respect to the prostate ends. For qualitative evaluation, five radiation oncologists scored the AIC on the possible usage within an online adaptive workflow as follows: (1) no modifications needed, (2) minor adjustments needed, (3) major adjustments/ multiple minor adjustments needed, (4) not usable. RESULTS The quantitative evaluation revealed a maximum median 95% HD of 6.9 mm for the rectum and minimum median 95% HD of 2.7 mm for the bladder. Maximal and minimal median DSC were detected for bladder with 0.97 and for penile bulb with 0.73, respectively. Using a tolerance level of 3 mm, the highest and lowest sDSC were determined for rectum (0.94) and anal canal (0.68), respectively. Qualitative evaluation resulted in a mean score of 1.2 for AICs over all organs and patients across all expert ratings. For the different autocontoured structures, the highest mean score of 1.0 was observed for anal canal, sacrum, femur left and right, and pelvis left, whereas for prostate the lowest mean score of 2.0 was detected. In total, 80% of the contours were rated be clinically acceptable, 16% to require minor and 4% major adjustments for online adaptive MRgRT. CONCLUSION In this study, an AI-based autocontouring was successfully trained for online adaptive MR-guided radiotherapy on the 1.5 T MR-Linac system. The developed model can automatically generate contours accepted by physicians (80%) or only with the need of minor corrections (16%) for the irradiation of primary prostate on the clinically employed sequences.
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- Marcel Nachbar
- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen; and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Radiation Oncology, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- TheraPanacea, Paris, France; CentraleSupelec, University of Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Tübingen; and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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Lo Russo M, Nachbar M, Barry A, Bhide S, Chang A, Hall W, Intven M, Marijnen C, Peters F, Minsky B, Romesser PB, Sarkar R, Tan A, Boeke S, Wegener D, Butzer S, Boldt J, Gatidis S, Nikolaou K, Thorwarth D, Zips D, Gani C. Impact of endorectal filling on interobserver variability of MRI based rectal primary tumor delineation. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol 2023; 38:1-5. [PMID: 36299279 PMCID: PMC9589000 DOI: 10.1016/j.ctro.2022.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Online adaptive MR-guided radiotherapy allows for the reduction of safety margins in dose escalated treatment of rectal tumors. With the use of smaller margins, precise tumor delineation becomes more critical. In the present study we investigated the impact of rectal ultrasound gel filling on interobserver variability in delineation of primary rectal tumor volumes. Methods Six patients with locally advanced rectal cancer were scanned on a 1.5 T MRI-Linac without (MRI_e) and with application of 100 cc of ultrasound gel transanally (MRI_f). Eight international radiation oncologists expert in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers delineated the gross tumor volume (GTV) on both MRI scans. MRI_f scans were provided to the participating centers after MRI_e scans had been returned. Interobserver variability was analyzed by either comparing the observers' delineations with a reference delineation (approach 1) and by building all possible pairs between observers (approach 2). Dice Similarity Index (DICE) and 95 % Hausdorff-Distance (95 %HD) were calculated. Results Rectal ultrasound gel filling was well tolerated by all patients. Overall, interobserver agreement was superior in MRI_f scans based on median DICE (0.81 vs 0.74, p < 0.005 for approach 1 and 0.76 vs 0.64, p < 0.0001 for approach 2) and 95 %HD (6.9 mm vs 4.2 mm for approach 1, p = 0.04 and 8.9 mm vs 6.1 mm, p = 0.04 for approach 2). Delineated median tumor volumes and inter-quartile ranges were 26.99 cc [18.01-50.34 cc] in MRI_e and 44.20 [19.72-61.59 cc] in MRI_f scans respectively, p = 0.012. Conclusions Although limited by the small number of patients, in this study the application of rectal ultrasound gel resulted in higher interobserver agreement in rectal GTV delineation. The endorectal gel filling might be a useful tool for future dose escalation strategies.
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- Monica Lo Russo
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiotherapy and Imaging, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg and German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg and German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg and German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Wegener D, Aebersold DM, Grimm MO, Hammerer P, Froehner M, Graefen M, Boehmer D, Zips D, Wiegel T. Postoperative Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer: Adjuvant versus Early Salvage. Biomedicines 2022; 10:biomedicines10092256. [PMID: 36140357 PMCID: PMC9496034 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10092256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Results of three randomized clinical trials (RCTs) comparing adjuvant radiotherapy (ART) and early salvage radiotherapy (eSRT) of prostate carcinoma and a subsequent meta-analysis of the individual patient data from these RCTs were recently published. The results suggest that early eSRT is as effective and potentially less toxic than ART. Therefore, eSRT should be considered the standard of care. However, due to limitations in the RCTs, ART remains a valid treatment option in patients with the combination of high-risk features such as Gleason Score (GS) 8–10, positive surgical margins (R1) and pathological T-stage 3 or 4 (pT3/4). This article provides a critical appraisal of the RCTs and the rationale for recommendations adopted in the current national guidelines regarding patients with high-risk features after radical prostatectomy (RP): ART should be offered in case of pT3/pT4 and R1 and Gleason Score 8–10; ART can be offered in case of pT3/pT4 and R0 and Gleason Score 8–10 as well as in case of multifocal R1 (including pT2) and Gleason Score 8–10. In any case, the alternative treatment option of eSRT in case of rising PSA should be discussed with the patient.
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- Daniel Wegener
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-070-7129-86143
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Urology, Jena University Hospital, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Urology, University Hospital Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Zeisigwaldkliniken Bethanien Chemnitz, 09130 Chemnitz, Germany
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- Martini Clinic, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tuebingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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Wegener D, Hoffmann KF, Pérez-Bitrián A, Bayindir I, Hadi AN, Wiesner A, Riedel S. Air-stable aryl derivatives of pentafluoroorthotellurate. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:9694-9697. [PMID: 35959700 PMCID: PMC9404409 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc03936b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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We report on two different sets of air-stable derivatives of pentafluoroorthotellurate containing fluorinated and non-fluorinated aryl groups. The acid cis-PhTeF4OH was obtained in gram scale and further transformed to Ag[cis-PhTeF4O], which was used as a cis-PhTeF4O transfer reagent to obtain [PPh4][cis-PhTeF4O]. Furthermore, the synthesis of trans-(C6F5)2TeF3OH was achieved by a selective hydrolysis of trans-(C6F5)2TeF4 in the presence of KF and subsequent protonation by aHF. Quantum-chemical calculations show a higher acidity and robustness against fluoride abstraction for trans-(C6F5)2TeF3OH compared to cis-PhTeF4OH. The synthesis of air-stable aryl derivatives of OTeF5 has been achieved through the use of convenient procedures. Pentafluorophenyl derivatives are stronger acids and more robust against electrophiles in comparison to phenyl analogues.![]()
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- Daniel Wegener
- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Anorganische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 34/36, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Wegener D, Thome A, Paulsen F, Gani C, Boldt J, Butzer S, Thorwarth D, Moennich D, Nachbar M, Müller AC, Zips D, Boeke S. First Experience and Prospective Evaluation on Feasibility and Acute Toxicity of Online Adaptive Radiotherapy of the Prostate Bed as Salvage Treatment in Patients with Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer on a 1.5T MR-Linac. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11164651. [PMID: 36012885 PMCID: PMC9410121 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11164651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Introduction: Novel MRI-linear accelerator hybrids (MR-Linacs, MRL) promise an optimization of radiotherapy (RT) through daily MRI imaging with enhanced soft tissue contrast and plan adaptation on the anatomy of the day. These features might potentially improve salvage RT of prostate cancer (SRT), where the clinical target volume is confined by the mobile organs at risk (OAR) rectum and bladder. So far, no data exist about the feasibility of the MRL technology for SRT. In this study, we prospectively examined patients treated with SRT on a 1.5 T MRL and report on workflow, feasibility and acute toxicity. Patients and Methods: Sixteen patients were prospectively enrolled within the MRL-01 study (NCT: NCT04172753). All patients were staged and had an indication for SRT after radical prostatectomy according to national guidelines. RT consisted of 66 Gy in 33 fractions or 66.5/70 Gy in 35 fractions in case of a defined high-risk region. On the 1.5 T MRL, daily plan adaption was performed using one of two workflows: adapt to shape (ATS, using contour adaptation and replanning) or adapt to position (ATP, rigid replanning onto the online anatomy with virtual couch shift). Duration of treatment steps, choice of workflow and treatment failure were recorded for each fraction of each patient. Patient-reported questionnaires about patient comfort were evaluated as well as extensive reporting of acute toxicity (patient reported and clinician scored). Results: A total of 524/554 (94.6%) of fractions were successfully treated on the MRL. No patient-sided treatment failures occurred. In total, ATP was chosen in 45.7% and ATS in 54.3% of fractions. In eight cases, ATP was performed on top of the initial ATS workflow. Mean (range) duration of all fractions (on-table time until end of treatment) was 25.1 (17.6–44.8) minutes. Mean duration of the ATP workflow was 20.60 (17.6–25.2) minutes and of the ATS workflow 31.3 (28.2–34.1) minutes. Patient-reported treatment experience questionnaires revealed high rates of tolerability of the treatment procedure. Acute toxicity (RTOG, CTC as well as patient-reported CTC, IPSS and ICIQ) during RT and 3 months after was mild to moderate with a tendency of recovery to baseline levels at 3 months post RT. No G3+ toxicity was scored for any item. Conclusions: In this first report on SRT of prostate cancer patients on a 1.5 T MRL, we could demonstrate the feasibility of both available workflows. Daily MR-guided adaptive SRT of mean 25.1 min per fraction was well tolerated in this pretreated collective, and we report low rates of acute toxicity for this treatment. This study suggests that SRT on a 1.5 T MRL can be performed in clinical routine and it serves as a benchmark for future analyses.
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- Daniel Wegener
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Klinikum Ludwigsburg, 71640 Ludwigsburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Charité Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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Andreev V, Arratia M, Baghdasaryan A, Baty A, Begzsuren K, Belousov A, Bolz A, Boudry V, Brandt G, Britzger D, Buniatyan A, Bystritskaya L, Campbell AJ, Cantun Avila KB, Cerny K, Chekelian V, Chen Z, Contreras JG, Cunqueiro Mendez L, Cvach J, Dainton JB, Daum K, Deshpande A, Diaconu C, Eckerlin G, Egli S, Elsen E, Favart L, Fedotov A, Feltesse J, Fleischer M, Fomenko A, Gal C, Gayler J, Goerlich L, Gogitidze N, Gouzevitch M, Grab C, Greenshaw T, Grindhammer G, Haidt D, Henderson RCW, Hessler J, Hladký J, Hoffmann D, Horisberger R, Hreus T, Huber F, Jacobs PM, Jacquet M, Janssen T, Jung AW, Jung H, Kapichine M, Katzy J, Kiesling C, Klein M, Kleinwort C, Klest HT, Kogler R, Kostka P, Kretzschmar J, Krücker D, Krüger K, Landon MPJ, Lange W, Laycock P, Lee SH, Levonian S, Li W, Lin J, Lipka K, List B, List J, Lobodzinski B, Malinovski E, Martyn HU, Maxfield SJ, Mehta A, Meyer AB, Meyer J, Mikocki S, Mondal MM, Morozov A, Müller K, Nachman B, Naumann T, Newman PR, Niebuhr C, Nowak G, Olsson JE, Ozerov D, Park S, Pascaud C, Patel GD, Perez E, Petrukhin A, Picuric I, Pitzl D, Polifka R, Preins S, Radescu V, Raicevic N, Ravdandorj T, Reimer P, Rizvi E, Robmann P, Roosen R, Rostovtsev A, Rotaru M, Sankey DPC, Sauter M, Sauvan E, Schmitt S, Schmookler BA, Schoeffel L, Schöning A, Sefkow F, Shushkevich S, Soloviev Y, Sopicki P, South D, Spaskov V, Specka A, Steder M, Stella B, Straumann U, Sun C, Sykora T, Thompson PD, Traynor D, Tseepeldorj B, Tu Z, Valkárová A, Vallée C, Van Mechelen P, Wegener D, Wünsch E, Žáček J, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Žlebčík R, Zohrabyan H, Zomer F. Measurement of Lepton-Jet Correlation in Deep-Inelastic Scattering with the H1 Detector Using Machine Learning for Unfolding. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 128:132002. [PMID: 35426724 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.132002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The first measurement of lepton-jet momentum imbalance and azimuthal correlation in lepton-proton scattering at high momentum transfer is presented. These data, taken with the H1 detector at HERA, are corrected for detector effects using an unbinned machine learning algorithm (multifold), which considers eight observables simultaneously in this first application. The unfolded cross sections are compared with calculations performed within the context of collinear or transverse-momentum-dependent factorization in quantum chromodynamics as well as Monte Carlo event generators.
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- V Andreev
- Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1827, USA
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- Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- LLR, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, CINVESTAV, Mérida, Yucatán, México
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- Joint Laboratory of Optics, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany
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- Shandong University, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, CINVESTAV, Mérida, Yucatán, México
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Fachbereich C, Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Irfu/SPP, CE Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
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- Institut für Teilchenphysik, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1827, USA
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- Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1827, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- I. Physikalisches Institut der RWTH, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
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- Faculty of Science, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Science, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
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- Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, Moscow, Russia
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest, Romania
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- STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- LLR, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Roma Tre and INFN Roma 3, Roma, Italy
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Shandong University, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Ulaanbaatar University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institut für Physik, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
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- Shandong University, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
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- IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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Gani C, Lo Russo M, Boeke S, Wegener D, Gatidis S, Butzer S, Boldt J, Mönnich D, Thorwarth D, Nikolaou K, Zips D, Nachbar M. A novel approach for radiotherapy dose escalation in rectal cancer using online MR-guidance and rectal ultrasound gel filling - Rationale and first in human. Radiother Oncol 2021; 164:37-42. [PMID: 34534612 DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2021.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Dose escalated radiotherapy has previously been investigated as a strategy to increase complete response rates in rectal cancer. However large safety margins are required using cone-beam computed tomography guided radiotherapy leading to high doses to organs at risk or insufficient target volume coverage in order to keep dose constraints. We herein present the first clinical application of a new technique for dose escalation in rectal cancer using online magnetic resonance (MR)-guidance and rectal ultrasound gel filling. METHODS A 73-year-old patient with distal cT3a cN0 cM0 rectal cancer was referred for definitive radiochemotherapy with the goal of organ preservation after multidisciplinary discussion. A dose of 45 Gy in 25 fractions with a stereotactic integrated boost to the primary tumor of 50 Gy with concomitant 5-fluorouracil was prescribed. Furthermore, a boost to the primary tumor with 3 Gy per fraction using the adapt-to-shape workflow on a 1.5 T MR-Linac was planned once weekly. For the boost fractions 100 cc of ultrasound gel was applied rectally in order to improve tumor visibility and distancing of uninvolved rectal mucosa. In order to determine the required planning target volume margin diagnostic scans of ten rectal cancer patients conducted with rectal ultrasound gel filling were studied. RESULTS Based on the ten diagnostic scans an average isotropic margin of 4 mm was found to be sufficient to cover 95% of the target volume during an online adaptive workflow. Three boost fractions were applied, mean treatment duration was 22:34 min. Treatment was well tolerated by the patient with no more than PRO-CTCAE grade I° toxicity of any kind. The rectal ultrasound gel filling resulted in superior visibility of the tumor and reduced the dose to the involved mucosa especially in the high dose range compared with a boost plan calculated without any filling. A considerable tumor shrinkage was observed during treatment from 17.43 cc at baseline to 4 cc in week four. CONCLUSION This novel method appears to be a simple but effective strategy for dose escalated radiotherapy in rectal cancer. Based on the encouraging observation, a prospective trial is currently under preparation.
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- Cihan Gani
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen, and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen, and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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Paulsen F, Bedke J, Wegener D, Marzec J, Martus P, Nann D, Stenzl A, Zips D, Müller AC. On the probability of lymph node negativity in pN0-staged prostate cancer-a theoretically derived rule of thumb for adjuvant needs. Strahlenther Onkol 2021; 198:690-699. [PMID: 34476527 PMCID: PMC9300491 DOI: 10.1007/s00066-021-01841-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Purpose The extent of lymphadenectomy and clinical features influence the risk of occult nodes in node-negative prostate cancer. We derived a simple estimation model for the negative predictive value (npv) of histopathologically node-negative prostate cancer patients (pN0) to guide adjuvant treatment. Methods Approximations of sensitivities in detecting lymph node metastasis from current publications depending on the number of removed lymph nodes were used for a theoretical deduction of a simplified formulation of npv assuming a false node positivity of 0. Results A theoretical formula of npv = p(N0IpN0) = (100 − prevalence) / (100 − sensitivity × prevalence) was calculated (sensitivity and preoperative prevalence in %). Depending on the number of removed lymph nodes (nLN), the sensitivity of pN0-staged prostate cancer was derived for three sensitivity levels accordingly: sensitivity = f(nLN) = 9 × nLN /100 for 0 ≤ nLN ≤ 8 and f(nLN) = (nLN + 70) /100 for 9 ≤ nLN ≤ 29 and f(nLN) = 1 for nLN ≥ 30. Conclusion We developed a theoretical formula for estimation of the npv in pN0-staged prostate cancer patients. It is a sine qua non to use the formula in a clinically experienced context before deciding to electively irradiate pelvic lymph nodes or to intensify adjuvant systemic treatment.
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- Frank Paulsen
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
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- Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry, Eberhard Karls University, Silcherstraße 5, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, Eberhard Karls University, Liebermeisterstr. 8, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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Wegener D, Lang P, Paulsen F, Weidner N, Zips D, Ebinger M, Holzer U, Döring M, Heinzelmann F. Primary immunosuppressive TNI-based conditioning regimens in pediatric patients treated with haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation. Strahlenther Onkol 2021; 198:66-72. [PMID: 34476532 PMCID: PMC8760200 DOI: 10.1007/s00066-021-01840-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PURPOSE This retrospective analysis aims to address the toxicity and efficacy of a modified total nodal irradiation (TNI)-based conditioning regimen before haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in pediatric patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient data including long-term follow-up were evaluated of 7 pediatric patients with malignant (n = 2) and non-malignant diseases (n = 5) who were treated by a primary TNI-based conditioning regimen. TNI was performed using anterior/posterior opposing fields. All patients received 7 Gy single-dose TNI combined with systemic agents followed by an infusion of peripheral blood stem cells (n = 7). All children had haploidentical family donors. RESULTS Engraftment was reached in 6/7 children after a median time of 9.5 days; 1 child had primary graft failure but was successfully reconditioned shortly thereafter. After an average follow-up time of 103.5 months (range 8.8-138.5 months), event-free (EFS) and overall survival (OS) rates were 71.4% and 85.7%, respectively. One child with a non-malignant disease died 8.8 months after transplantation due to a relapse and a multiple organ failure. Follow-up data was available for 5/6 long-term survivors with a median follow-up (FU) of 106.2 months (range 54.5-138.5 months). Hypothyroidism and deficiency of sexual hormones was present in 3/5 patients each. Mean forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) after TNI was 71%; mean vital capacity (VC) was 78%. Growth failure (< 10th percentile) occurred in 2/5 patients (height) and 1/5 patient (weight). No secondary malignancies were reported. CONCLUSION In this group of patients, a primary single-dose 7 Gy TNI-based conditioning regimen before HCT in pediatric patients allowed sustained engraftment combined with a tolerable toxicity profile leading to long-term OS/EFS. Late toxicity after a median FU of over 9 years includes growth failure, manageable hormonal deficiencies, and acceptable decrease in lung function.
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- D Wegener
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Clinic of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
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- Department of Paediatrics I, Hematology and Oncology, University Clinic of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Clinic of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Clinic of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Clinic of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics I, Hematology and Oncology, University Clinic of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics I, Hematology and Oncology, University Clinic of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Paediatrics I, Hematology and Oncology, University Clinic of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Clinic of Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany
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Wegener D, Zips D, Gani C, Boeke S, Nikolaou K, Othman AE, Almansour H, Paulsen F, Müller AC. [Primary treatment of prostate cancer using 1.5 T MR-linear accelerator]. Radiologe 2021; 61:839-845. [PMID: 34297139 PMCID: PMC8410708 DOI: 10.1007/s00117-021-00882-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hintergrund Der potenzielle Nutzen des verbesserten Weichteilkontrastes von MR-Sequenzen gegenüber der Computertomographie (CT) für die Radiotherapie des Prostatakarzinoms ist bekannt und führt zu konsistenteren und kleineren Zielvolumina sowie verbesserter Risikoorganschonung. Hybridgeräte aus Magnetresonanztomographie (MRT) und Linearbeschleuniger (MR-Linac) stellen eine neue vielversprechende Erweiterung der radioonkologischen Therapieoptionen dar. Material und Methoden Dieser Artikel gibt eine Übersicht über bisherige Erfahrungen, Indikationen, Vorteile und Herausforderungen für die Radiotherapie des primären Prostatakarzinoms mit dem 1,5-T-MR-Linac. Ergebnisse Alle strahlentherapeutischen Therapieindikationen für das primäre Prostatakarzinom können mit dem 1,5-T-MR-Linac abgedeckt werden. Die potenziellen Vorteile umfassen die tägliche MR-basierte Lagekontrolle in Bestrahlungsposition und die Möglichkeit der täglichen Echtzeitanpassung des Bestrahlungsplans an die aktuelle Anatomie der Beckenorgane (adaptive Strahlentherapie). Zusätzlich werden am 1,5-T-MR-Linac funktionelle MRT-Sequenzen für individuelles Response-Assessment für die Therapieanpassung untersucht. Dadurch soll das therapeutische Fenster weiter optimiert werden. Herausforderungen stellen u. a. die technische Komplexität und die Dauer der Behandlungssitzung dar. Schlussfolgerung Der 1,5-T-MR-Linac erweitert das radioonkologische Spektrum in der Therapie des Prostatakarzinoms und bietet Vorteile durch tagesaktuelle MRT-basierte Zielvolumendefinition und Planadaptation. Weitere klinische Untersuchungen sind notwendig, um die Patienten zu identifizieren, die von der Behandlung am MR-Linac gegenüber anderen strahlentherapeutischen Methoden besonders profitieren.
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- Daniel Wegener
- Universitätsklinik für Radioonkologie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Deutschland.
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- Universitätsklinik für Radioonkologie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Deutschland
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- Universitätsklinik für Radioonkologie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Deutschland
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- Universitätsklinik für Radioonkologie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Deutschland
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- Universitätsklinik für Radiologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Deutschland
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- Universitätsklinik für Radiologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Deutschland
- Universitätsklink für Neuroradiologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Deutschland
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- Universitätsklinik für Radiologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Deutschland
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- Universitätsklinik für Radioonkologie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Deutschland
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Beck M, Ghadjar P, Mehrhof F, Zips D, Paulsen F, Wegener D, Burock S, Kaul D, Stromberger C, Nadobny J, Ott OJ, Fietkau R, Budach V, Wust P, Müller AC, Zschaeck S. Salvage-Radiation Therapy and Regional Hyperthermia for Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer after Radical Prostatectomy (Results of the Planned Interim Analysis). Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13051133. [PMID: 33800872 PMCID: PMC7961934 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13051133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Revised: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Several efforts like dose-escalated salvage radiation therapy and the use of androgen deprivation therapy aimed to improve the postoperative treatment in patients with biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer after prostatectomy. However, the oncological outcome is still not satisfactory. Hyperthermia is well-known to improve the efficacy of radiation therapy, whereas only limited data for postoperative therapy in prostate cancer are available. Thus, we conducted a prospective multicenter non-randomized Phase-II-Trial (HTProstate) investigating the implementation of combined salvage radiation therapy and regional hyperthermia in case of biochemical recurrence after prostatectomy with the aim to evaluate the safety, feasibility, and oncological outcome of this approach. The results of our planned interim analysis (n = 50) met the criteria of safety (only one patient with acute grade 3 hyperthermia-specific toxicity), showed feasibility of planned radiation and hyperthermia therapy, no significant changes in quality of life and promising short-term prostate-specific antigen response. Late toxicity and robust oncological outcome data will be reported after completion of the trial. Abstract Efforts to improve the outcome of prostate cancer (PC) patients after radical prostatectomy (RP) include adjuvant or salvage radiation therapy (SRT), but still up to 50% of patients develop a disease progression after radiotherapy (RT). Regional hyperthermia (HT) is well-known to improve tumor sensitivity to RT in several entities. Here we report on a planned interim analysis of tolerability and feasibility after recruitment of the first 50 patients of a trial combining SRT and HT. We conducted a prospective multicenter non-randomized Phase-II-Trial (HTProstate-NCT04159051) investigating the implementation of combined moderate-dose escalated SRT (70 Gy in 35 fractions) and locoregional deep HT (7–10 HT sessions). The primary endpoints were the rate of acute genitourinary (GU), gastrointestinal (GI), and HT-related toxicities, completed HT sessions (≥7), and SRT applications per protocol (≥95% of patients). The two-step design included a planned interim analysis for acute GU-, GI- and HT-specific toxicities to ensure patients’ safety. Between November 2016 and December 2019, 52 patients entered into the trial. After 50 patients completed therapy and three months of follow-up, we performed the planned interim analysis. 10% of patients developed acute grade 2 GU and 4% grade 2 GI toxicities. No grade ≥3 GU or GI toxicities occurred. HT-specific symptoms grade 2 and 3 were observed in 4% and 2% of all patients. Thus, the pre-specified criteria for safety and continuation of recruitment were met. Moreover, ≥7 HT treatments were applicable, indicating the combination of SRT + HT to be feasible. Evaluation of early QoL showed no significant changes. With its observed low rate of GU and GI toxicities, moderate and manageable rates of HT-specific symptoms, and good feasibility, the combined SRT + HT seems to be a promising treatment approach for biochemical recurrence after RP in PC patients.
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- Marcus Beck
- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-30-450-627-343; Fax: +49-30-450-7527343
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; (D.Z.); (F.P.); (D.W.); (A.-C.M.)
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; (D.Z.); (F.P.); (D.W.); (A.-C.M.)
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; (D.Z.); (F.P.); (D.W.); (A.-C.M.)
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- Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany;
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (O.J.O.); (R.F.)
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (O.J.O.); (R.F.)
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; (D.Z.); (F.P.); (D.W.); (A.-C.M.)
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- Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Radiation Oncology, 13353 Berlin, Germany; (P.G.); (F.M.); (D.K.); (C.S.); (J.N.); (V.B.); (P.W.); (S.Z.)
- Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Wegener D, Berger B, Outtagarts Z, Zips D, Paulsen F, Bleif M, Thorwarth D, Alber M, Dohm O, Müller AC. Prospective evaluation of probabilistic dose-escalated IMRT in prostate cancer. Radiol Oncol 2020; 55:88-96. [PMID: 33885246 PMCID: PMC7877263 DOI: 10.2478/raon-2020-0075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cure- and toxicity rates after intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) of prostate cancer are dose-and volume dependent. We prospectively studied the potential for organ at risk (OAR) sparing and compensation of tumor movement with the coverage probability (CovP) concept. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-eight prostate cancer patients (median age 70) with localized disease (cT1c-2c, N0, M0) and intermediate risk features (prostate-specific antigen [PSA] < 20, Gleason score ≤ 7b) were treated in a prospective study with the CovP concept. Planning-CTs were performed on three subsequent days to capture form changes and movement of prostate and OARs. The clinical target volume (CTV) prostate and the OARs (bladder and rectum) were contoured in each CT. The union of CTV1-3 was encompassed by an isotropic margin of 7 mm to define the internal target volume (ITV). Dose prescription/escalation depended on coverage of all CTVs within the ITV. IMRT was given in 39 fractions to 78 Gy using the Monte-Carlo algorithm. Short-term androgen deprivation was recommended and given in 78.6% of patients. RESULTS Long-term toxicity was evaluated in 26/28 patients after a median follow-up of 7.1 years. At last follow-up, late bladder toxicity (Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, RTOG) G1 was observed in 14.3% of patients and late rectal toxicities (RTOG) of G1 (7.1%) and of G2 (3.6%) were observed. No higher graded toxicity occurred. After 7.1 years, biochemical control (biochemically no evidence of disease, bNED) was 95.5%, prostate cancer-specific survival and the distant metastasis-free survival after 7.1 years were 100% each. CONCLUSIONS CovP-based IMRT was feasible in a clinical study. Dose escalation with the CovP concept was associated by a low rate of toxicity and a high efficacy regarding local and distant control.
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- Daniel Wegener
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, TübingenGermany
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- Clinic for Radiation Oncology, St. Elisabethen-Clinic, Ravensburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, TübingenGermany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, TübingenGermany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen; and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, TübingenGermany
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- Clinic for Radiology and Radiation Oncology, Alb Fils Clinic Göppingen, GöppingenGermany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, TübingenGermany
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- Clinic for Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, HeidelbergGermany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, TübingenGermany
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Othman A, Wegener D, Zips D, Paulsen F, De Colle C, Thorwarth D, Bedke J, Stenzl A, Afat S, Weiss J, Notohamiprodjo M, Nikolaou K, Müller A. PO-1682: MR-based adaptive IGRT for prostate cancer: Results of an exploratory cohort on DWI. Radiother Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(21)01700-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Outaggarts Z, Wegener D, Berger B, Zips D, Paulsen F, Bleif M, Thorwarth D, Alber M, Dohm O, Müller AC. Target miss using PTV-based IMRT compared to robust optimization via coverage probability concept in prostate cancer. Acta Oncol 2020; 59:911-917. [PMID: 32436467 DOI: 10.1080/0284186x.2020.1760349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Purpose: Cure- and toxicity rates of prostate IGRT can both be affected by ill-chosen planning target volume (PTV) margins. For dose-escalated prostate radiotherapy, we studied the potential for organ at risk (OAR) sparing and compensation of prostate motion with robust plan optimization using the coverage probability (CovP) concept compared to conventional PTV-based IMRT.Material and methods: We evaluated plan quality of CovP-plans for 27 intermediate risk prostate cancer patients treated in a prospective study (78 Gy/39 fractions). Clinical target volume (CTV) and OARs were contoured on three separate CTs to capture movement and deformation. To define the internal target volume (ITV), the union of CTV1-3 was encompassed by an isotropic margin of 7 mm for the planning process. CovP-dose distribution is optimized considering weight factors for IMRT constraints derived from probabilities of systematic organ displacement in the three CTs. CovP-dose volume histograms (DVHs) were compared with additionally calculated conventional PTV-based IMRT plans. PTV-based IMRT was planned on one-single CT with an isotropically expanded CTV to generate the PTV (i.e., CTV1 + 7mm) and was evaluated on the two other CTs.Results: The CovP-concept showed higher robustness in target volume coverage. Target miss was frequently observed with PTV-based IMRT, resulting in cold spots until 70 Gy with the CovP-concept. The target dose at 74 Gy was comparable, while further the dose-escalation (75-78 Gy) was improved with PTV-based IMRT. However, dose-escalation with PTV-based IMRT was associated with increased OAR-doses, especially in high-dose areas.Conclusions: Probabilistic dose-escalated IMRT was feasible in this prospective study. Comparison of the CovP-concept with PTV-based IMRT revealed superiority with regard to target-coverage and sparing of OARs. The CovP-concept implements a robust plan optimization strategy for organ deformation and motions and could, therefore, serve as a less demanding compromise on the way to adaptive IGRT avoiding daily time-consuming re-planning. SUMMARYWe evaluated the robustness of coverage probability (CovP)-based IMRT plans within a prospective study for prostate cancer radiotherapy. The treatment plans were compared with newly calculated conventional PTV-based IMRT plans. We were able to show that CovP led to a clearly more robust target coverage by avoiding hot spots at OARs compared to conventional PTV-based IMRT. In addition, negative consequences of an inflated PTV can be ameliorated by a more relaxed CovP-based dose prescription.
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- Zoulikha Outaggarts
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Clinic for Radiation Oncology, Oberschwaben Hospital Group, Ravensburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Clinic for Radiology and Radiation Oncology, ALB FILS Clinics Hospital on the Eichert, Goppingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Section Medical Physics, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Clinic for Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Section Medical Physics, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Marzec J, Becker J, Paulsen F, Wegener D, Olthof SC, Pfannenberg C, Schwenck J, Bedke J, Stenzl A, Nikolaou K, la Fougère C, Zips D, Müller AC. 68Ga-PSMA-PET/CT-directed IGRT/SBRT for oligometastases of recurrent prostate cancer after initial surgery. Acta Oncol 2020; 59:149-156. [PMID: 31559880 DOI: 10.1080/0284186x.2019.1669816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Background: We evaluated efficacy and toxicity of 68Ga-PSMA-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT)-directed stereotactic body radiotherapy and image-guided radiotherapy (SBRT/IGRT) for oligometastases of prostate cancer recurrences after previous surgery.Methods: Nineteen patients were analyzed within a prospective PET-registry study (064/2013BO1) and retrospectively analyzed (807/2017BO2) fulfilling the following inclusion criteria: biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy, ≤five 68Ga-PSMA-PET/CT positive lesions. Biochemical control was evaluated with EORTC (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer)- and Phenix-definitions. Toxicity was scored according to CTCAE-criteria v. 4.03.Results: A total of 38 oligometastases (19 patients, 2 with re-treatment) were treated with SBRT/IGRT from October 2014 to July 2017. 68Ga-PSMA-PET/CT-positive lesions were detected on average 39 months (5-139) after prostatectomy (pT2b-3b pN0-1 cM0). Mean PSA (Prostate-specific antigen)-level at time of imaging reached 2.2 ng/mL (range 0.2-10.1). PET/CT-positive lesions were treated with different fractionation schedules reaching biological equivalent doses (BED) of 116.7-230.0 Gy. Concomitant androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) was given in seven patients. After a median follow-up of 17 months (4-42) all patients were alive. Estimated 1-year PSA- control (n = 19) reached 80.8% (Phenix) and 67.5% (EORTC). A PSA-decline (≥50%) was detected in 16/19 patients after radiotherapy. Higher graded G3+-acute toxicity did not occur. Temporary late G3-proctitis was detected in one patient.Conclusions: Reaching of nadir ≤0.1 or 0.2 ng/mL was associated by improved DMFS (distant metastases free survival) and could serve as a surrogate endpoint for RT of oligometastases after initial prostatectomy. Short term effects of 68Ga-PSMA-PET/CT-based ablative radiotherapy for oligometastases demonstrated an acceptable toxicity profile and favorable biochemical response.
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- J. Marzec
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellnence iFIT (EXC 2180) “Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies”, University of Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen; and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cluster of Excellnence iFIT (EXC 2180) “Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies”, University of Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen; and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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Marks C, Stolte A, Thorwarth D, Braun L, Boeke S, Wegener D, Boldt J, Ortinau C, Kammler M, Holl-Henkel B, Gani C, Zips D, Nachbar M, Dohm O, Mönnich D. PO-1095 Time management and hands-on experience with ELEKTA Unity 1.5T MRI-Linac. Radiother Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(19)31515-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Marzec J, Paulsen F, Westbomke S, Outaggarts Z, Wegener D, Thorwarth D, Zips D, Müller A. EP-1573 Is there an optimal OAR-filling protocol reducing G2 +-toxicity for prostate IMRT? Radiother Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(19)31993-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Müller A, Olthof S, Pfannenberg C, Wegener D, Marzec J, Bedke J, Stenzl A, La Fougère C, Nikolaou K, Zips D, Schwenck J. EP-1541 Intention to treat analysis of 68Ga-PSMA/11Ccholine PET/CT vs. CT for prostate cancer recurrences. Radiother Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(19)31961-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Schwenck J, Olthof SC, Pfannenberg C, Reischl G, Wegener D, Marzec J, Bedke J, Stenzl A, Nikolaou K, la Fougère C, Zips D, Müller AC. Intention-to-Treat Analysis of 68Ga-PSMA and 11C-Choline PET/CT Versus CT for Prostate Cancer Recurrence After Surgery. J Nucl Med 2019; 60:1359-1365. [DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.118.224543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Wegener D, Zips D, Thorwarth D, Weiß J, Othman AE, Grosse U, Notohamiprodjo M, Nikolaou K, Müller AC. Precision of T2 TSE MRI-CT-image fusions based on gold fiducials and repetitive T2 TSE MRI-MRI-fusions for adaptive IGRT of prostate cancer by using phantom and patient data. Acta Oncol 2019; 58:88-94. [PMID: 30264629 DOI: 10.1080/0284186x.2018.1518594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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INTRODUCTION To increase precision of radiation treatment (RT) delivery in prostate cancer, MRI-based RT as well as the use of fiducials like gold markers (GMs) have shown promising results. Their combined use is currently under investigation in clinical trials. Here, we aimed to evaluate a workflow of image registration based on GMs between CT and MRI as well as weekly MRI-MRI adaption based on T2 TSE sequence. MATERIAL AND METHODS A gel-phantom with two inserted GMs was scanned with CT and three different MR-scanners of 1.5 and 3 T (T2 TSE and T1 VIBE-Dixon, isotropic, voxel size 2 × 2 × 2 mm). After image fusion, deviations for fiducial and gel match were measured and artifacts were evaluated. Additionally, CT-MRI-match deviations and MRI-MRI-match deviations of 10 Patients from the M-basePro study using GMs were assessed. RESULTS GMs were visible in all imaging modalities. The outer gel contours were matched with <1 mm deviation, contour volumes varied between 0 and 1%. The deviations of the GMs were less than 2 mm in any direction of MRI/CT. Shifts of peripherally or centrally located GMs were randomly distributed. The average MRI-CT-match precision of 10 patients with GMs was 1.9 mm (range 1.1-3.1 mm). CONCLUSIONS Match inaccuracies for GMs between reference CT and voxel-isotropic T2-TSE sequences are small. Spatial deviations of CT- and MR-contoured fiducials were less than 2 mm, i.e., below SLT of the applied modalities. In patients, the average CT-MRI-match precision for GMs was 1.9 mm supporting their use in MR-guided high precision RT.
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- D. Wegener
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen; and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tübingen; and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Wegener D, Zips D, Thorwarth D, Nikolaou K, Othman A, Grosse U, Müller A. EP-1604: Precision of MRI-CT-image fusion based on goldmarkers for IGRT by using a phantom and clinical data. Radiother Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(18)31913-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Wegener D, Berger B, Outaggarts Z, Zips D, Paulsen F, Bleif M, Thorwarth D, Alber M, Dohm O, Müller A. EP-1606: Probabilistic Planning Concept instead of Target Volume Margins - Prospective evaluation. Radiother Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(18)31915-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Andreev V, Baghdasaryan A, Begzsuren K, Belousov A, Bertone V, Bolz A, Boudry V, Brandt G, Brisson V, Britzger D, Buniatyan A, Bylinkin A, Bystritskaya L, Campbell AJ, Cantun Avila KB, Cerny K, Chekelian V, Contreras JG, Cvach J, Currie J, Dainton JB, Daum K, Diaconu C, Dobre M, Dodonov V, Eckerlin G, Egli S, Elsen E, Favart L, Fedotov A, Feltesse J, Fleischer M, Fomenko A, Gabathuler E, Gayler J, Gehrmann T, Ghazaryan S, Goerlich L, Gogitidze N, Gouzevitch M, Grab C, Grebenyuk A, Greenshaw T, Grindhammer G, Gwenlan C, Haidt D, Henderson RCW, Hladkỳ J, Hoffmann D, Horisberger R, Hreus T, Huber F, Huss A, Jacquet M, Janssen X, Jung AW, Jung H, Kapichine M, Katzy J, Kiesling C, Klein M, Kleinwort C, Kogler R, Kostka P, Kretzschmar J, Krücker D, Krüger K, Landon MPJ, Lange W, Laycock P, Lebedev A, Levonian S, Lipka K, List B, List J, Lobodzinski B, Malinovski E, Martyn HU, Maxfield SJ, Mehta A, Meyer AB, Meyer H, Meyer J, Mikocki S, Morozov A, Müller K, Naumann T, Newman PR, Niebuhr C, Niehues J, Nowak G, Olsson JE, Ozerov D, Pascaud C, Patel GD, Perez E, Petrukhin A, Picuric I, Pirumov H, Pitzl D, Plačakytė R, Polifka R, Rabbertz K, Radescu V, Raicevic N, Ravdandorj T, Reimer P, Rizvi E, Robmann P, Roosen R, Rostovtsev A, Rotaru M, Šálek D, Sankey DPC, Sauter M, Sauvan E, Schmitt S, Schoeffel L, Schöning A, Sefkow F, Shushkevich S, Soloviev Y, Sopicki P, South D, Spaskov V, Specka A, Steder M, Stella B, Straumann U, Sutton MR, Sykora T, Thompson PD, Traynor D, Truöl P, Tsakov I, Tseepeldorj B, Valkárová A, Vallée C, Van Mechelen P, Vazdik Y, Wegener D, Wünsch E, Žáček J, Zhang Z, Žlebčík R, Zohrabyan H, Zomer F. Determination of the strong coupling constant α s ( m Z ) in next-to-next-to-leading order QCD using H1 jet cross section measurements: H1 Collaboration. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2017; 77:791. [PMID: 31997933 PMCID: PMC6956906 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5314-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The strong coupling constant α s is determined from inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in neutral-current deep-inelastic ep scattering (DIS) measured at HERA by the H1 collaboration using next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions. The dependence of the NNLO predictions and of the resulting value ofα s ( m Z ) at the Z-boson mass m Z are studied as a function of the choice of the renormalisation and factorisation scales. Using inclusive jet and dijet data together, the strong coupling constant is determined to beα s ( m Z ) = 0.1157 ( 20 ) exp ( 29 ) th . Complementary,α s ( m Z ) is determined together with parton distribution functions of the proton (PDFs) from jet and inclusive DIS data measured by the H1 experiment. The valueα s ( m Z ) = 0.1142 ( 28 ) tot obtained is consistent with the determination from jet data alone. The impact of the jet data on the PDFs is studied. The running of the strong coupling is tested at different values of the renormalisation scale and the results are found to be in agreement with expectations.
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije University, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), Science Park 105, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- LLR, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region Russian Federation
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, CINVESTAV, Mérida, Yucatán Mexico
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Fachbereich C, Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM UMR 7346, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest, Romania
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31342 Kraków, Poland
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- IPNL, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
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- Institut für Teilchenphysik, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM UMR 7346, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Teilchenphysik, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Ave, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- I. Physikalisches Institut der RWTH, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Fachbereich C, Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31342 Kraków, Poland
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31342 Kraków, Poland
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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- LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- IPNL, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
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- Faculty of Science, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7 Canada
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- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik (ETP), Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- Faculty of Science, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
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- Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, Moscow, Russia
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest, Romania
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire UK
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM UMR 7346, 13288 Marseille, France
- LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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- Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31342 Kraków, Poland
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- LLR, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tre and INFN Roma 3, Rome, Italy
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Pevensey II, Brighton, UK
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Ulaanbaatar University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM UMR 7346, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB, Brussels and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Institut für Physik, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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- LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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Müller A, Zips D, Wegener D, Reischl G, Nikolaou K, La Fougère C, Pfannenberg C. EP-1343: PET-CT-related treatment changes in high risk and recurrent prostate cancer. Radiother Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(16)32593-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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DeLuca A, Frick M, Lessem E, Kanouse J, Wegener D, Mingote LR. Activism on rifapentine pricing: removing cost barriers to improve the uptake of tuberculosis research innovations. Public Health Action 2015; 4:238-42. [PMID: 26400702 DOI: 10.5588/pha.14.0089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2014] [Accepted: 11/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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As recent advances have been made in developing tools to fight tuberculosis (TB), there is also a trend towards increasing advocacy by the civil society for TB research and access. One recent successful effort to increase access to treatment options for TB involved a collaborative effort to identify the need for and barriers to the use of rifapentine (RPT) use in the United States. Survey responses confirmed the under-utilization of RPT: 82% of survey respondents selected cost as a significant or potential barrier to use. Survey results provided data to support a year-long advocacy campaign urging the drug company Sanofi to lower the price of RPT. This campaign was based on a common evidence base built in part by the stakeholders themselves. After multiple engagements with communities and providers, Sanofi US announced on 12 December 2013 that they would drop the price of RPT to US$32 per blister pack of 32 tablets for US public health programs. While further work remains to secure access to RPT in the United States and worldwide, the lowering of the price of RPT reflects the positive impact that collaborative advocacy can accomplish, and sets an example for other drug companies to follow.
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- Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Treatment Action Group, New York, New York, USA
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- Treatment Action Group, New York, New York, USA
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- National Tuberculosis Controllers Association, Smyrna, Georgia, USA
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- National Tuberculosis Controllers Association, Smyrna, Georgia, USA
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Latus J, Schwab M, Tacconelli E, Pieper FM, Wegener D, Dippon J, Müller S, Zakim D, Segerer S, Kitterer D, Priwitzer M, Mezger B, Walter-Frank B, Corea A, Wiedenmann A, Brockmann S, Pöhlmann C, Alscher MD, Braun N. Clinical course and long-term outcome of hantavirus-associated nephropathia epidemica, Germany. Emerg Infect Dis 2015; 21:76-83. [PMID: 25533268 PMCID: PMC4285283 DOI: 10.3201/eid2101.140861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The consequences of associated hematuria may be long-lasting, and hantavirus IgG is detectable years after acute infection. Human infection with Puumala virus (PUUV), the most common hantavirus in Central Europe, causes nephropathia epidemica (NE), a disease characterized by acute kidney injury and thrombocytopenia. To determine the clinical phenotype of hantavirus-infected patients and their long-term outcome and humoral immunity to PUUV, we conducted a cross-sectional prospective survey of 456 patients in Germany with clinically and serologically confirmed hantavirus-associated NE during 2001–2012. Prominent clinical findings during acute NE were fever and back/limb pain, and 88% of the patients had acute kidney injury. At follow-up (7–35 mo), all patients had detectable hantavirus-specific IgG; 8.5% had persistent IgM; 25% had hematuria; 23% had hypertension (new diagnosis for 67%); and 7% had proteinuria. NE-associated hypertension and proteinuria do not appear to have long-term consequences, but NE-associated hematuria may. All patients in this study had hantavirus-specific IgG up to years after the infection.
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Latus J, Schwab M, Tacconelli E, Pieper FM, Wegener D, Rettenmaier B, Schwab A, Hoffmann L, Dippon J, Müller S, Fritz P, Zakim D, Segerer S, Kitterer D, Kimmel M, Gußmann K, Priwitzer M, Mezger B, Walter-Frank B, Corea A, Wiedenmann A, Brockmann S, Pöhlmann C, Alscher MD, Braun N. Acute kidney injury and tools for risk-stratification in 456 patients with hantavirus-induced nephropathia epidemica. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2014; 30:245-51. [PMID: 25313168 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfu319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Puumala virus (PUUV) is the most common species of hantavirus in Central Europe. Nephropathia epidemica (NE), caused by PUUV, is characterized by acute kidney injury (AKI) and thrombocytopenia. The major goals of this study were to provide a clear clinical phenotyping of AKI in patients with NE and to develop an easy prediction rule to identify patients, who are at lower risk to develop severe AKI. METHODS A cross-sectional prospective survey of 456 adult patients with serologically confirmed NE was performed. Data were collected from medical records and prospectively at follow-up visit. Severe AKI was defined by standard criteria according to the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, End-stage kidney disease) classification. Fuller statistical models were developed and validated to estimate the probability for severe AKI. RESULTS During acute NE, 88% of the patients had AKI according to the RILFE criteria during acute NE. A risk index score for severe AKI was derived by using three independent risk factors in patients with normal kidney function at time of diagnosis: thrombocytopenia [two points; odds ratios (OR): 3.77; 95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.82, 8.03], elevated C-reactive protein levels (one point; OR: 3.02; 95% CI: 1.42, 6.58) and proteinuria (one point; OR: 3.92; 95% CI: 1.33, 13.35). On the basis of a point score of one or two, the probability of severe AKI was 0.18 and 0.28 with an area under the curve of 0.71. CONCLUSION This clinical prediction rule provides a novel and diagnostically accurate strategy for the potential prevention and improved management of kidney complications in patients with NE and, ultimately, for a possible decrease in unnecessary hospitalization in a high number of patients.
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- Joerg Latus
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Digital Medicine, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Digital Medicine, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
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Rossi S, Christ-Neumann ML, Rüping S, Buffa FM, Wegener D, McVie G, Coveney PV, Graf N, Delorenzi M. p-Medicine: From data sharing and integration via VPH models to personalized medicine. Ecancermedicalscience 2011; 5:218. [PMID: 22276060 PMCID: PMC3223941 DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2011.218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The Worldwide innovative Networking in personalized cancer medicine (WIN) initiated by the Institute Gustave Roussy (France) and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA) has dedicated its 3rd symposium (Paris, 6-8 July 2011) to discussion on gateways to increase the efficacy of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics (http://www.winconsortium.org/symposium.html).Speakers ranged from clinical oncologist to researchers, industrial partners, and tools developers; a famous patient was present: Janelle Hail, a 30-year breast cancer survivor, founder and CEO of the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. (NBCF).The p-medicine consortium found this venue a perfect occasion to present a poster about its activities that are in accordance with the take home message of the symposium.In this communication, we summarize what we presented with particular attention to the interaction between the symposium's topic and content and our project.
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- Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Fraunhofer IAIS, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany
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- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Fraunhofer IAIS, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany
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- Ecancermedicalscience, Gotthardstrasse 20, 6300 Zug, Switzerland
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- Centre for Computational Science, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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We report the case of a 84 year old patient who developed a syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) with severe hyponatremia in the context of a localized herpes zoster L1/2. This is a rare but known complication of localized varizella zoster infection. Under water restriction and salt administration the hyponatremia was corrected slowly. One month after hospital discharge the patient showed a normal sodium value without diet.
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- Medizinische Klinik, Bezirksspital Affoltern am Albis
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Lübbers B, Kittler G, Ort P, Linkohr S, Wegener D, Baur B, Gebinoga M, Weise F, Eickhoff M, Maroldt S, Schober A, Ambacher O. A novel GaN-based multiparameter sensor system for biochemical analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/pssc.200778726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Abt I, Adams M, Agari M, Albrecht H, Aleksandrov A, Amaral V, Amorim A, Aplin SJ, Aushev V, Bagaturia Y, Balagura V, Bargiotti M, Barsukova O, Bastos J, Batista J, Bauer C, Bauer TS, Belkov A, Belkov A, Belotelov I, Bertin A, Bobchenko B, Böcker M, Bogatyrev A, Bohm G, Bräuer M, Bruinsma M, Bruschi M, Buchholz P, Buran T, Carvalho J, Conde P, Cruse C, Dam M, Danielsen KM, Danilov M, Castro SD, Deppe H, Dong X, Dreis HB, Egorytchev V, Ehret K, Eisele F, Emeliyanov D, Essenov S, Fabbri L, Faccioli P, Feuerstack-Raible M, Flammer J, Fominykh B, Funcke M, Garrido L, Giacobbe B, Gläss J, Goloubkov D, Golubkov Y, Golutvin A, Golutvin I, Gorbounov I, Gorisek A, Gouchtchine O, Goulart DC, Gradl S, Gradl W, Grimaldi F, Groth-Jensen J, Guilitsky Y, Hansen JD, Hernández JM, Hofmann W, Hott T, Hulsbergen W, Husemann U, Igonkina O, Ispiryan M, Jagla T, Jiang C, Kapitza H, Karabekyan S, Karpenko N, Keller S, Kessler J, Khasanov F, Kiryushin Y, Klinkby E, Knöpfle KT, Kolanoski H, Korpar S, Krauss C, Kreuzer P, Krizan P, Krücker D, Kupper S, Kvaratskheliia T, Lanyov A, Lau K, Lewendel B, Lohse T, Lomonosov B, Männer R, Masciocchi S, Massa I, Matchikhilian I, Medin G, Medinnis M, Mevius M, Michetti A, Mikhailov Y, Mizuk R, Muresan R, Zur Nedden M, Negodaev M, Nörenberg M, Nowak S, Núñez Pardo de Vera MT, Ouchrif M, Ould-Saada F, Padilla C, Peralta D, Pernack R, Pestotnik R, Piccinini M, Pleier MA, Poli M, Popov V, Pose A, Pose D, Prystupa S, Pugatch V, Pylypchenko Y, Pyrlik J, Reeves K, Ressing D, Rick H, Riu I, Robmann P, Rostovtseva I, Rybnikov V, Sánchez F, Sbrizzi A, Schmelling M, Schmidt B, Schreiner A, Schröder H, Schwartz AJ, Schwarz AS, Schwenninger B, Schwingenheuer B, Sciacca F, Semprini-Cesari N, Shuvalov S, Silva L, Smirnov K, Sözüer L, Solunin S, Somov A, Somov S, Spengler J, Spighi R, Spiridonov A, Stanovnik A, Staric M, Stegmann C, Subramania HS, Symalla M, Tikhomirov I, Titov M, Tsakov I, Uwer U, van Eldik C, Vassiliev Y, Villa M, Vitale A, Vukotic I, Wahlberg H, Walenta AH, Walter M, Wang JJ, Wegener D, Werthenbach U, Wolters H, Wurth R, Wurz A, Zaitsev Y, Zavertyaev M, Zech G, Zeuner T, Zhelezov A, Zheng Z, Zimmermann R, Zivko T, Zoccoli A. Limits for the central production of Theta+ and Xi(--)pentaquarks in 920-GeV pA collisions. Phys Rev Lett 2004; 93:212003. [PMID: 15600999 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.212003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We have searched for Theta+(1540) and Xi(--)(1862) pentaquark candidates in proton-induced reactions on C, Ti, and W targets at midrapidity and square root of s = 41.6 GeV. In 2 x 10(8) inelastic events we find no evidence for narrow (sigma approximately 5 MeV) signals in the Theta+ --> pK0(S) and Xi(--) --> Xi- pi- channels; our 95% C.L. upper limits (UL) for the inclusive production cross section times branching fraction B dsigma/dy/(y approximately 0) are (4-16) mub/N for a Theta+ mass between 1521 and 1555 MeV, and 2.5 mub/N for the Xi(--). The UL of the yield ratio of Theta+/Lambda(1520) < (3-12)% is significantly lower than model predictions. Our UL of B Xi(--)/Xi(1530)0 < 4% is at variance with the results that have provided the first evidence for the Xi(--).
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- I Abt
- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Werner-Heisenberg-Institut, D-80805 Munich, Germany
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Flühs D, Wilke C, Naber C, Hienz M, Bambynek M, Kaiser C, Langner I, Baumgart D, Sauerwein W, Wegener D, Quast U. The influence of guiding equipment and stents on the beta dose distribution in the brachytherapy of in-stent restenosis. Cardiovasc Radiat Med 2001; 2:241-5. [PMID: 12160766 DOI: 10.1016/s1522-1865(01)00093-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Intracoronary devices such as stents or guide wires may disturb the dose distribution of beta sources in cardiovascular brachytherapy. As clinical observations indicate that underdosage increases the risk of restenosis, accurate measurements are mandatory to investigate these effects. METHODS AND RESULTS Dose perturbation effects of different interventional equipment were systematically determined. Dose distributions of 90Sr-beta line sources were measured by means of a special set-up employing plastic scintillator dosimeters in a water phantom. Shielding effects were found to be 2-5% for single stents and 5-10% for graft stents, stent-in-stent geometries, and guiding catheters. Guide wires close to the source reduced the dose by 25-30%. CONCLUSIONS Beta dose perturbation effects of typical stent types are almost negligible and can be corrected by an increased source dwell time if necessary. Guide wires produce effects which are clinically much more important and should therefore be retracted from the irradiation area.
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Clinical Radiation Physics, University of Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, 45122 Essen, Germany.
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Jürgens C, Strom A, Wegener D, Hettwer S, Wilmanns M, Sterner R. Directed evolution of a (beta alpha)8-barrel enzyme to catalyze related reactions in two different metabolic pathways. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:9925-30. [PMID: 10944186 PMCID: PMC27628 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.160255397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2000] [Accepted: 06/02/2000] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Enzymes participating in different metabolic pathways often have similar catalytic mechanisms and structures, suggesting their evolution from a common ancestral precursor enzyme. We sought to create a precursor-like enzyme for N'-[(5'-phosphoribosyl)formimino]-5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide (ProFAR) isomerase (HisA; EC ) and phosphoribosylanthranilate (PRA) isomerase (TrpF; EC ), which catalyze similar reactions in the biosynthesis of the amino acids histidine and tryptophan and have a similar (betaalpha)(8)-barrel structure. Using random mutagenesis and selection, we generated several HisA variants that catalyze the TrpF reaction both in vivo and in vitro, and one of these variants retained significant HisA activity. A more detailed analysis revealed that a single amino acid exchange could establish TrpF activity on the HisA scaffold. These findings suggest that HisA and TrpF may have evolved from an ancestral enzyme of broader substrate specificity and underscore that (betaalpha)(8)-barrel enzymes are very suitable for the design of new catalytic activities.
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- C Jürgens
- Abteilung Molekulare Genetik und Präparative Molekularbiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Grisebachstrasse 8, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Bambynek M, Flühs D, Quast U, Wegener D, Soares CG. A high-precision, high-resolution and fast dosimetry system for beta sources applied in cardiovascular brachytherapy. Med Phys 2000; 27:662-7. [PMID: 10798687 DOI: 10.1118/1.598927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A fast dosimetry system based on plastic scintillator detectors has been developed which allows three-dimensional measurement of the radiation field in water of beta-sources appropriate for application in cardiovascular brachytherapy. This system fulfills the AAPM Task Group 60 recommendations for dosimetry of cardiovascular brachytherapy sources. To demonstrate the use of the system, measurements have been performed with an 90Y-wire source. The dose distribution was determined with a spatial resolution of better than 0.2 mm, with only a few minutes needed per scan. The scintillator dosemeter was absolutely calibrated in terms of absorbed dose to water with a precision of +/-7.5%. The relative precision achievable is +/-2.5%. The response of the system is linear within +/-2% for dose rates from 0.5 mGy s(-1) to 500 mGy s(-1).
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- M Bambynek
- Div. Clin. Radiation Physics, Essen University Hospital, Germany
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A new approach to optimize curative eye plaque brachytherapy is presented. The application of ophthalmic plaques is a common therapy modality for small and medium sized intraocular tumors. At Essen University Hospital eye applicators with photon emitting 125I seeds are used for the treatment of tumors with a thickness from 5 to 10 mm. Our clinical experiences indicate that the dose distributions of these applicators-used so far worldwide-are not optimal. A steeper dose falloff would meet the radiobiological requirements better, to provide the eradication of all tumor cells as well as sufficient occlusion of tumor supplying blood vessels. Our investigations for eye plaque optimization are based both on measurements and Monte Carlo simulation. For fast dosimetric measurements we have built a computer controlled device which allows reading out, directly and simultaneously, 16 1 mm3 scintillators. For the numerical simulations of the dose distribution of 125I eye plaques we have adapted a Monte Carlo program originally developed to calculate the synchrotron radiation in particle physics. We have investigated the influence of geometrical as well as physical eye plaque parameters on the dose distribution: Shielding of the primary radiation, penumbra modification, and energy conversion by exploiting fluorescence x-radiation have been considered. New types of fluorescence eye applicators have been designed which are more suitable for the prevention of radiopathic effects on structures at risk.
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- M Bambynek
- Klinische Strahlenphysik, Strahlentherapie, Universitätsklinikum, Essen, Germany.
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Flühs D, Bambynek M, Heintz M, Indenkämpen F, Kolanoski H, Wegener D, Sauerwein W, Quast U. Dosimetry and design of radioactive eye plaques. Front Radiat Ther Oncol 1997; 30:26-38. [PMID: 9205882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- D Flühs
- Universitätsklinikum Essen, Radiologisches Zentrum, Strahlenklinik, Essen
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Kellmann JW, Kleinow T, Engelhardt K, Philipp C, Wegener D, Schell J, Schreier PH. Characterization of two class II chitinase genes from peanut and expression studies in transgenic tobacco plants. Plant Mol Biol 1996; 30:351-8. [PMID: 8616259 DOI: 10.1007/bf00020121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Two different genes encoding class II chitinases from peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. cv. NC4), A.h.Chi2;1 and A.h.Chi2;2, have been cloned. In peanut cell suspension cultures, mRNA levels of A.h.Chi2;2 increased after ethylene or salicylate treatment and in the presence of conidia from Botrytis cinerea. The second gene, A.h.Chi2;1, was only expressed after treatment with the fungal spores. Transgenic tobacco plants containing the complete peanut A.h.Chi2;1 gene exhibited essentially the same expression pattern in leaves as observed in peanut cell cultures. Expression characteristics of transgenic tobacco carrying a promoter-GUS fusion of A.h.Chi2;1 are described.
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- J W Kellmann
- Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, FRG
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Albrecht H, Hamacher T, Hofmann RP, Kirchhoff T, Mankel R, Nau A, Nowak S, Schröder H, Schulz HD, Walter M, Wurth R, Hast C, Kapitza H, Kolanoski H, Kosche A, Lange A, Lindner A, Schieber M, Siegmund T, Spaan B, Thurn H, Töpfer D, Wegener D, Eckstein P, Schubert KR, Schwierz R, Waldi R, Reim K, Wegener H, Eckmann R, Kuipers H, Mai O, Mundt R, Oest T, Reiner R, Schmidt-Parzefall W, Stiewe J, Werner S, Ehret K, Hofmann W, Hüpper A, Knöpfle KT, Spengler J, Krieger P, MacFarlane DB, Saull PRB, Tzamariudaki K, Water RG, Yoon TS, Frankl C, Reßing D, Schmidtler M, Schneider M, Weseler S, Kernel G, Križan P, Križnič E, Podobnik T, Živko T, Balagura V, Belyaev I, Schechelnitsky S, Danilov M, Doutskoy A, Gershtein Y, Golutvin A, Korolko I, Kostina G, Litvintsev D, Lubimov V, Pakhlov P, Semenov S, Snizhko A, Tichomirov I, Zaitsev Y. Tau decays into K* mesons. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01566669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Wegener D, Steinecke P, Herget T, Petereit I, Philipp C, Schreier PH. Expression of a reporter gene is reduced by a ribozyme in transgenic plants. Mol Gen Genet 1994; 245:465-70. [PMID: 7808396 DOI: 10.1007/bf00302259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A chimeric gene encoding a ribozyme under the control of the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter was introduced into transgenic tobacco plants. In vivo activity of this ribozyme, which was designed to cleave npt mRNA, was previously demonstrated by transient expression assays in plant protoplasts. The ribozyme gene was transferred into transgenic tobacco plants expressing an rbcS-npt chimeric gene as an indicator. Five double transformants out of sixteen exhibited a reduction in the amount of active NPT enzyme. To measure the amount of ribozyme produced, in the absence of its target, the ribozyme and target genes were separated by genetic segregation. The steady-state concentrations of ribozyme and target RNA were shown to be similar in the resulting single transformants. Direct evidence for a correlation between reduced npt gene expression and ribozyme expression was provided by crossing a plant containing only the ribozyme gene with a transgenic plant expressing the npt gene under control of the 35S promoter, i.e. the same promoter used to direct ribozyme expression. The expression of npt was reduced in all progeny containing both transgenes. Both steady-state levels of npt mRNA and amounts of active NPT enzyme are decreased. In addition, our data indicate that, at least in stable transformants, a large excess of ribozyme over target is not a prerequisite for achieving a significant reduction in target gene expression.
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- D Wegener
- Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Abteilung Genetische Grundlagen der Pflanzenzüchtung, Köln, Germany
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Albrecht H, Ehrlichmann H, Hamacher T, Hofmann RP, Kirchhoff T, Nau A, Nowak S, Schröder H, Schulz HD, Walter M, Wurth R, Appuhn RD, Hast C, Kolanoski H, Lange A, Lindner A, Mankel R, Schieber M, Siegmund T, Spaan B, Thurn H, Töpfer D, Walther A, Wegener D, Bittner M, Eckstein P, Paulini MG, Reim K, Wegener H, Mundt R, Oest T, Reiner R, Schmidt-Parzefall W, Funk W, Stiewe J, Werner S, Ehret K, Hofmann W, Hüpper A, Khan S, Knöpfle KT, Spengler J, Britton DI, Charlesworth CEK, Edwards KW, Hyatt ERF, Kapitza H, Krieger P, MacFarlane DB, Patel PM, Prentice JD, Saull PRB, Tzamariudaki K, Water RG, Yoon TS, Reßing D, Schmidtler M, Schneider M, Schubert KR, Strahl K, Waldi R, Weseler S, Kernel G, Križan P, Križnič E, Podobnik T, Živko T, Balagura V, Belyaev I, Chechelnitsky S, Danilov M, Droutskoy A, Gershtein Y, Golutvin A, Gorelov I, Kostina G, Lubimov V, Pakhlov P, Ratnikov F, Semenov S, Shibaev V, Soloshenko V, Tichomirov I, Zaitsev Y. Search for rareB meson decays intoD s + mesons. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01650427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Albrecht H, Ehrlichmann H, Hamacher T, Krüger A, Nau A, Nippe A, Reidenbach M, Schäfer M, Schröder H, Schulz HD, Sefkow F, Wurth R, Appuhn RD, Hast C, Herrera G, Kolanoski H, Lange A, Lindner A, Mankel R, Schieber M, Siegmund T, Spaan B, Thurn H, Töpfer D, Walther A, Wegener D, Paulini MG, Reim K, Volland U, Wegener H, Mundt R, Oest T, Schmidt-Parzefall W, Funk W, Stiewe J, Werner S, Ball S, Gabriel JC, Geyer C, Hölscher A, Hofmann W, Holzer B, Khan S, Knöpfle KT, Spengler J, Britton DI, Charlesworth CEK, Edwards KW, Kapitza H, Krieger P, Kutschke R, MacFarlane DB, Orr RS, Patel PM, Prentice JD, Seidel SC, Tspolitis G, Tzamariudaki K, Water RG, Yoon TS, Reßing D, Schael S, Schubert KR, Strahl K, Waldi R, Weseler S, Bostjančič B, Kernel G, Križan P, Križnič E, Podobnik T, Živko T, Cronström HI, Jönsson L, Balagura V, Danilov M, Droutskoy A, Fominykh B, Golutvin A, Gorelov I, Ratnikov F, Lubimov V, Pakhlov P, Rostovtsev A, Semenov A, Semenov S, Shevchenko V, Soloshenko V, Tichomirov I, Zaitsev Y, Childers R, Darden CW. Production ofD S + mesons inB decays and determination of $$f_{D_S } $$. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01881703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Jutzi P, Wegener D, Hursthouse M. Synthese von Dicarbollyl-Komplexen der Elemente Phosphor und Arsen; Röntgenstrukturanalyse von ClAs[C2Me2B9H9]. J Organomet Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-328x(91)80213-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Albrecht H, Ehrlichmann H, Hamacher T, Harder G, Krüger A, Nau A, Nippe A, Reidenbach M, Schäfer M, Schröder H, Schulz HD, Sefkow F, Wurth R, Appuhn RD, Hast C, Herrera G, Kolanoski H, Lange A, Lindner A, Mankel R, Schieber M, Schweda G, Siegmund T, Spaan B, Thurn H, Walther A, Wegener D, Paulini M, Reim K, Volland U, Wegener H, Mundt R, Oest T, Schmidt-Parzefall W, Funk W, Stiewe J, Werner S, Ball S, Gabriel JC, Geyer C, Hölscher A, Hofmann W, Holzer B, Khan S, Knöpfle KT, Spengler J, Britton DI, Charlesworth CEK, Edwards KW, Kapitza H, Krieger P, Kutschke R, MacFarlane DB, Orr RS, Patel PM, Prentice JD, Seidel SC, Tsipolitis G, Tzamariudaki K, Water RG, Yoon TS, Ressing D, Schael S, Schubert KR, Strahl K, Waldi R, Weseler S, Boštjančič B, Kernel G, Križan P, Križnič E, Živko T, Cronström HI, Jönsson L, Babaev A, Balagura V, Danilov M, Droutskoy A, Fominykh B, Golutvin A, Gorelov I, Ratnikov F, Lubimov V, Rostovtsev A, Semenov A, Semenov S, Shevchenko V, Soloshenko V, Tichomirov I, Zaitsev Y, Childers R, Darden CW. Inclusive production ofD 0,D + andD *(2010)+ mesons inB decays and nonresonante + e − annihilation at 10.6 GeV. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01559430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The maturation of zygotes formed by the fusion of two gametes is the essential part of the diploid phase of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii sexual life cycle and results in mature zygotes competent to germinate. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying zygote maturation and the attainment of competence for germination we isolated genomic clones representing three different genes that are specifically expressed in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii zygotes. Accumulation of the RNAs started more than 24 h after mating, setting these genes apart from genes expressed in young zygotes. Upon light-induced germination of zygotes, the mRNAs disappeared. The patterns of RNA accumulation and disappearance were gene-specific and suggested a function of these genes in maturation and/or in initial steps of germination.
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- D Wegener
- Institut für Biologie III, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
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