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ArticlePhysics in medicine and biology2026

Mid-range arc therapy for efficient and RBE-robust proton treatment.

Qingying Wang, Mingli Chen, Yinheng Zhu, Xingyi Zhao, You Zhang, Xuejun Gu, Weiguo Lu

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Article in Physics in medicine and biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Qingying WangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States of America.ORCID 0009-0005-0580-6948
Mingli ChenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-9758-3788
Yinheng ZhuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-9421-2404
Xingyi ZhaoDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States of America.ORCID 0009-0008-9346-2760
You ZhangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8033-2755
Xuejun GuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6725-6906
Weiguo LuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-3036-7287

Funding

An artificial intelligence-driven distributed stereotactic radiosurgery strategy for multiple brain metastases managementR01CA235723 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI GU, XUEJUN, LU, WEIGUO · 2019 to 2024
$2.9M
SBIR TOPIC 417: QUANTITATIVE IMAGING SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PLANNING75N91023C00032 · NCI · NEURALRAD LLC · PI JIANG, HAO · 2023 to 2023
$2.0M
High-Precision Proton Therapy for Liver Cancer: Developing an End-to-end Strategy with Real-time Liver Tumor Localization and On-the-fly Plan Delivery AdaptationR01CA280135 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Weiguo Lu, You Zhang · 2024 to 2026
$1.8M
High-Precision Lung Radiotherapy by Intra-treatment Dynamic Cone-beam CT imaging and Dosimetry-guided Plan AdaptationR01EB034691 · NIBIB · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Weiguo Lu, You Zhang · 2024 to 2026
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS 75N91023C00032NCI NIH HHS R01 CA235723NCI NIH HHS R01 CA280135NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB034691
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Proton TherapyRadiotherapy, Intensity-ModulatedRelative Biological EffectivenessHumansLinear Energy TransferMaleOrgans at RiskPhantoms, ImagingRadiotherapy DosageRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisteddelivery efficiencyenergy layer selectionLETdproton arc therapyRBE-robust

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PMID42061966
PMCPMC13173004

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