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Radiobiological Modeling and Experimental Quantification of Radiobiological Parameters used in Cervical Cancer Brachytherapy Dose Calculation
DownloadSpring 2022
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide, with an estimated 604,000 cases identified in 2020. The standard care for locally advanced cervical cancers is concurrent chemotherapy and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with a brachytherapy (BT) boost. Current guidelines recommend...
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Radiosynthesis and Optimization of 18F-Fluorinated GW2580 Derivatives as A Dual Trk/CSF-1R Radiotracer for Potential Use in PET Imaging
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As one of the medical imaging modalities applied in clinical diagnosis of various diseases, positron emission tomography (PET) is used to non-invasively visualize cellular and molecular changes that are occurring in the human body. Fluorine-18 [18F] is the most widely used radionuclide for...
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Fall 2020
External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) utilizes high energy radiation (primarily photons or electrons) generated from a linear accelerator (linac) for the treatment of cancer. Current linac technologies lack the ability to continuously monitor the tumour and surround area during treatment. Real-time...
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Spring 2012
The aim of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of low field MR based real time lung tumour tracking, a promising application of proposed linac-MR system. In this work, motion phantoms replicating low field MR contrast parameters for thoracic anatomy of lung cancer patients are imaged with...
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Spring 2023
The rotating B0 linac-MR is a new type of radiotherapy treatment machine that combines radiation delivery from a linear accelerator (linac) with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system for real-time tumour tracking. This kind of combined technology aims to achieve tighter margins in cancer...
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Regulation of Anti-tumor Immunity in Colorectal Cancer by Interaction of Exosome Immune Complexes with Fc gamma Receptors
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Targeted therapy is difficult for colorectal cancer (CRC) due to lack of conserved tumor associated antigens (TAA). Immunotherapies for CRC directed at TAA that can overcome intestinal tolerance need to be developed to improve survival of CRC patients. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles secreted...
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Regulation of collagen type I production by ionizing radiation and transforming growth factor-β1 in primary human skin fibroblasts derived from early stage breast cancer patients in relation to acute radiation-induced toxicity
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Regulation of collagen type I (CI) in fibroblasts is critical for the onset and development of skin toxicities induced by radiation therapy (RT). Transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) promote CI synthesis, while its degradation is modulated by...
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Spring 2014
The Reelin signaling pathway is involved in the migration of neurons during brain development. Reelin binding to the receptors VLDLR (Very Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor) and ApoER2 (Apolipoprotein E Receptor 2) leads to Dab1 phosphorylation, thereby activating a cascade of downstream...