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ArticleMedical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists2021

Rationale for using a C-arm fluoroscope to deliver a kilovoltage radiotherapy treatment to COVID-19 patients.

Dante Roa, Harry Moyses, Stephanie Leon, Barabara Hamrick, Gustavo R Sarria, Benjamin Li, Toshiki Tajima, Ales Necas, Carmen Guzman, Oliver Paucar and 6 more

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Article in Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Dante RoaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine Health, Orange, CA 92868, USA. Electronic address: droa@uci.edu.
Harry MoysesDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine Health, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
Stephanie LeonDepartment of Radiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
Barabara HamrickEnvironmental Health and Safety, University of California Irvine Health, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
Gustavo R SarriaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Benjamin LiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA.
Toshiki TajimaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Ales NecasTAE Technologies, Foothill Ranch, CA 92610, USA.
Carmen GuzmanFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matematica, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal - Lima, Peru.
Oliver PaucarFacultad de Ingenieria Electrica y Electronica, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria - Lima, Peru.
Alberto GonzalesFacultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru.
Roger ChallcoFacultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru.
Modesto MontoyaFacultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru.
Zintia ArqqueFacultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru.
Andres GonzalesClinica Aliada contra el Cancer, Lima, Peru.
Jimmy HernandezHRS Oncology International, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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COVID-19PneumoniaFluoroscopyHumansRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32878727
PMCPMC7381930

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