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ArticleBiomedical physics & engineering express2023

Design, testing and characterization of a proton central axis alignment device for the dynamic collimation system.

Theodore Geoghegan, Kaustubh Patwardhan, Qi Ying, Nicholas Nelson, Jen Yu, Alonso Gutierrez, Patrick Hill, Ryan Flynn, Daniel Hyer

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Article in Biomedical physics & engineering express, 2023. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Theodore GeogheganDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-6350-7795
Kaustubh PatwardhanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States of America.
Qi YingDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States of America.
Nicholas NelsonDepartment of Medical Physics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1111 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI, 53705, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6608-4276
Jen YuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, 8900 N. Kendall Drive, Miami, FL, 33176, United States of America.
Alonso GutierrezDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, 8900 N. Kendall Drive, Miami, FL, 33176, United States of America.
Patrick HillDepartment of Human Oncology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI, 53792, United States of America.
Ryan FlynnDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8604-6047
Daniel HyerDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States of America.
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics · USBaptist Hospital of Miami · USUniversity of Iowa · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Sharpening the edge in pencil-beam proton therapy: an aftermarket collimation system to better spare normal tissue during radiation treatmentR37CA226518 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI HYER, DANIEL ELLIS · 2018 to 2024
$3.1M
NCI NIH HHS R37 CA226518
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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ProtonsProton TherapyPhantoms, ImagingReproducibility of ResultsProtonsalignmentcameracollimationproton therapyscintillatorspot scanning

Identifiers

PMID37267924
PMCPMC10330655
OpenAlexW4379114881

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Registered trials

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