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The Development of New DPPZ Dendritic Molecule For Photodynamic Therapy

  • Choi, Chang-Shik
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 춘계학술대회
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    • pp.467-469
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    • 2021
  • The dendritic molecule has focused on the target material for photodynamic therapy, and used as the energy harvesting molecule for the application of medicinal field. Those molecules have also researched on the molecule design for the preparation of new dendritic material on PDD and PDT. In this presentation, new dendritic molecules are introduced on the development of DPPZ dendritic molecule for PDT and the efficient synthetic process.

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Dosimetric comparison of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) in total scalp irradiation: a single institutional experience

  • Ostheimer, Christian;Hubsch, Patrick;Janich, Martin;Gerlach, Reinhard;Vordermark, Dirk
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • 제34권4호
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    • pp.313-321
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: Total scalp irradiation (TSI) is a rare but challenging indication. We previously reported that non-coplanar intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) was superior to coplanar IMRT in organ-at-risk (OAR) protection and target dose distribution. This consecutive treatment planning study compared IMRT with volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT). Materials and Methods: A retrospective treatment plan databank search was performed and 5 patient cases were randomly selected. Cranial imaging was restored from the initial planning computed tomography (CT) and target volumes and OAR were redelineated. For each patients, three treatment plans were calculated (coplanar/non-coplanar IMRT, VMAT; prescribed dose 50 Gy, single dose 2 Gy). Conformity, homogeneity and dose volume histograms were used for plan. Results: VMAT featured the lowest monitor units and the sharpest dose gradient (1.6 Gy/mm). Planning target volume (PTV) coverage and homogeneity was better in VMAT (coverage, 0.95; homogeneity index [HI], 0.118) compared to IMRT (coverage, 0.94; HI, 0.119) but coplanar IMRT produced the most conformal plans (conformity index [CI], 0.43). Minimum PTV dose range was 66.8%-88.4% in coplanar, 77.5%-88.2% in non-coplanar IMRT and 82.8%-90.3% in VMAT. Mean dose to the brain, brain stem, optic system (maximum dose) and lenses were 18.6, 13.2, 9.1, and 5.2 Gy for VMAT, 21.9, 13.4, 14.5, and 6.3 Gy for non-coplanar and 22.8, 16.5, 11.5, and 5.9 Gy for coplanar IMRT. Maximum optic chiasm dose was 7.7, 8.4, and 11.1 Gy (non-coplanar IMRT, VMAT, and coplanar IMRT). Conclusion: Target coverage, homogeneity and OAR protection, was slightly superior in VMAT plans which also produced the sharpest dose gradient towards healthy tissue.

FoxM1 as a Novel Therapeutic Target for Cancer Drug Therapy

  • Xu, Xin-Sen;Miao, Run-Chen;Wan, Yong;Zhang, Ling-Qiang;Qu, Kai;Liu, Chang
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • 제16권1호
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    • pp.23-29
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    • 2015
  • Background: Current cancer therapy mainly focuses on identifying novel targets crucial for tumorigenesis. The FoxM1 is of preference as an anticancer target, due to its significance in execution of mitosis, cell cycle progression, as well as other signal pathways leading to tumorigenesis. FoxM1 is partially regulated by oncoproteins or tumor suppressors, which are often mutated, lost, or overexpressed in human cancer. Since sustaining proliferating signaling is an important hallmark of cancer, FoxM1 is overexpressed in a series of human malignancies. Alarge-scale gene expression analysis also identified FoxM1 as a differentially-expressed gene in most solid tumors. Furthermore, overexpressed FoxM1 is correlated with the prognosis of cancer patients, as verified in a series of malignancies by Cox regression analysis. Thus, extensive studies have been conducted to explore the roles of FoxM1 in tumorigenesis, making it an attractive target for anticancer therapy. Several antitumor drugs have been reported to target or inhibit FoxM1 expression in different cancers, and down-regulation of FoxM1 also abrogates drug resistance in some cancer cell lines, highlighting a promising future for FoxM1 application in the clinic.

Liposome-Mediated Cancer Gene Therapy: Clinical Trials and their Lessons to Stem Cell Therapy

  • Lee, Jung-Hoon;Lee, Min-Jae
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제33권2호
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    • pp.433-442
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    • 2012
  • The promise of stem cell therapy for various clinical applications seems getting realistic. An increasing number of researchers, from virtually every discipline of natural sciences, are flocking into this new world. Only ten years ago, gene therapy was the medicine for the 21st century. The possibility was endless. Although the science itself underlying gene therapy was very young, the field was exploding under the optimism that this new medicine would revolutionize both the basic and clinical sciences. For many reasons, the initial target was cancer. Here, we will focus on the results of cancer gene therapy clinical trials using liposome or nonviral gene carrier, hoping that the lesson from here will be a guideline for the new generation of cell-based therapies.

두경부암 환자에 대한 선량체적 히스토그램에 따른 토모치료외 선형가속기기반 세기변조방사선치료의 정량적 비교 (Comparison of Helical TomoTherapy with Linear Accelerator Base Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy for Head & Neck Cases)

  • 김동욱;윤명근;박성용;이세병;신동호;이두현;곽정원;박소아;임영경;김진성;신정욱;조관호
    • 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 2008
  • 토모치료기는 선형가속기에서 사용되는 세기 변조방사선치료와 Mega-voltage Computed Tomography (MVCT) 3차원 영상정보에 의한 영상유도방사선치료(Image Guide Radiation Therapy, IGRT)가 가능하고 나선식 빔 조사를 통해 표적과 정상조직에 효율적으로 선량(dose)을 집중하고 분산할 수 있다는 장점을 가진다. 이에 본 논문에서는 2006년 9월부터 운용을 시작한 국립암센터의 토모치료기를 이용하여 10명의 두경부암 환자를 대상으로 토모치료계획과 선형가속기기반 세기변조방사선치료계획의 선량분포를 비교하였으며 또한, 영상유도 방사선치료장치가 구비되지 못하여 환자의 위치보정이 부정확한 구형 세기변조방사선치료기에 대해 표적의 움직임에 따라 균일성(Homogeneity)과 정상조직부작용율(Normal Tissue Complication Probability, NTCP)이 상대적으로 어떻게 변화하는지 연구하였다. 이 연구를 위하여 토모치료기의 치료계획용 시스템인 Hi-Art (Hi-Art2_2_4 2.2.4.15, TomoTherapy Incorporated, 1240 Doming Way, Madison, WI S3717-1954, USA)와 선형가속기기반 세기변조방사선치료계획용 시스템인 CadPlan (CadPlan R.6.4.7, Varian Medical System Inc. 3100 Hansen Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1129, USA)을 이용한 역치료계획(inverse Planning)이 수행되었으며 치료계획은 각각의 환자에 대해 같은 표적과 최적화조건을 가지도록 고려되었다. 총 10명의 환자를 대상으로 한 연구결과, 환자의 신체내 외부가 완전히 고정되어 있는 이상적인 경우에 대해서 토모치료기를 이용한 치료계획이 선형가속기에 의한 세기 변조 방식보다 표적에 대해 보다 높고 일정한 선량분포를 주면서도 주변 장기의 선량이 선량체적 히스토그램(Dose Volume Histogram, DVH)에서 오히려 감소함을 보여 주었다 또한 토모치료기의 MVCT를 이용하여 한 달간 토모 환자의 표적위치변화를 측정하였고, 이를 토대로 평균 표적위치변화를 고려하였을 경우 선형가속기기반 세기변조방사선치료계획인 CadPlan에서 표적의 등가균질선량(Equivalant Uniform Dose, EUD)이 감소하고 정상조직의 부작용율의 발생가능성이 상대적으로 증가함을 발견하였다.

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Current status of proton therapy techniques for lung cancer

  • Han, Youngyih
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • 제37권4호
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    • pp.232-248
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    • 2019
  • Proton beams have been used for cancer treatment for more than 28 years, and several technological advancements have been made to achieve improved clinical outcomes by delivering more accurate and conformal doses to the target cancer cells while minimizing the dose to normal tissues. The state-of-the-art intensity modulated proton therapy is now prevailing as a major treatment technique in proton facilities worldwide, but still faces many challenges in being applied to the lung. Thus, in this article, the current status of proton therapy technique is reviewed and issues regarding the relevant uncertainty in proton therapy in the lung are summarized.

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy of Brain Tumor

  • Kim, Sung-Kyu;Kim, Myung-Se
    • 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국의학물리학회 2002년도 Proceedings
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    • pp.61-64
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    • 2002
  • As intensity modulated radiation therapy compared with conventional radiation therapy, tumor target dose increased and normal tissues and critical organs dose reduced. In brain tumor, treatment planning of intensity modulated radiation therapy was practiced in 4MV, 6MV, 15MV X-ray energy. In these X-ray energy, was considered the dose distribution and dose volume histogram. As 4MV X-ray compared with 6MV and 15MV, maximum dose of right optic-nerve increased 10.1 %, 8.4%. Right eye increased 5.2%, 2.7%. And left optic-nerve, left eye, optic chiasm and brainstem incrased 1.7% - 5.2%. Even though maximum dose of PTV and these critical organs show different from 1.7% - 10.1% according to X-ray energies, these are a piont dose. Therefore in brain tumor, treatment planning of intensity modulated radiation therapy in 9 treatment field showed no relation with energy dependency.

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AAPM TG-119 보고서를 통한 세기조절방사선치료(IMRT)와 부피적세기조절회전치료(VMAT)의 치료 전 환자별 정도관리 (The Patient Specific QA of IMRT and VMAT Through the AAPM Task Group Report 119)

  • 강동진;정재용;김종하;박승;이근섭;손승창;신영주;김연래
    • 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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    • 제35권3호
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    • pp.255-263
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    • 2012
  • 본 연구에서는 AAPM TG-119 보고서를 통해 본원에 도입된 세기조절방사선치료(IMRT)와 부피적세기조절회전치료(VMAT)의 치료 전 환자별 정도관리(patient specific QA)를 시행하고자 하였다. 본원의 치료계획장치를 이용해 각각의 치료계획을 수립하여 절대선량은 표적 및 위험장기에 전리함을 이용해 측정하였고 상대선량분포는 $DELTA^{4PT}bi$-planar diode array를 사용하여 측정하였다. 치료계획의 평가는 선량체적히스토그램을 이용하였고 선량검증은 측정값과 계산값을 비교하여 시행하였다. 치료계획평가에서 전립선의 경우에는 두 치료법 모두 표적과 위험장기의 목표선량에 도달하였으며 두경부와 Multi target의 경우, 세기조절방사선치료는 표적에서는 목표선량에 도달하지 못하였지만 부피적세기조절 회전치료는 표적과 위험장기 모두 목표선량에 도달하였다. C-shape(easy)은 두 치료법이 표적과 위험장기 모두 목표선량에 도달하였고, C-shape(hard)의 경우엔, 두 치료법이 표적에서는 목표선량에 도달하였으나 위험장기에서는 목표선량에 도달하지 못하였다. 절대선량평가에서는 세기조절방사선치료의 경우 평균오차율의 평균값이 표적에서 $1.24{\pm}2.06%$, 위험장기에서 $1.4{\pm}2.9%$였고 신뢰구간은 표적에서 3.65%, 위험장기에서 4.39%였다. 부피적세기조절회전치료는 평균오차율의 평균값이 표적에서 $2.06{\pm}0.64%$, 위험장기에서 $2.21{\pm}0.74%$ 였고 신뢰구간은 표적에서 4.09%, 위험장기에서 3.04%로 두 치료법 모두 제안된 허용기준인 표적에서 4.5%, 위험장기에서 4.7% 이내였다. 상대선량평가에서는 세기조절방사선치료의 경우 허용기준을 통과하는 감마인덱스의 평균값은 $98.3{\pm}1.5%$였고 신뢰구간은 3.78%였다. 부피적세기조절회전치료의 경우엔 평균값이 $98.2{\pm}1.1%$였고 신뢰구간은 3.95%로 두 치료법 모두 제안된 허용기준인 7.0% 이내였다. 따라서 이번 연구에서 실시한 시험을 통해 본원의 세기조절방사선치료와 부피적세기조절회전치료가 보고서에서 제안된 허용기준에 모두 부합하고 사용에 적합함을 확인할 수 있었다.