25 results on '"Xu, Qianyi"'
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2. Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases in Patients With Small Cell Lung Cancer
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Wang, Victoria H., Juneja, Badal, Goldman, Howard Warren, Turtz, Alan, Bilbao, Chris, Xu, Qianyi, Mulvihill, Dave, Eastwick, Gary, and Kubicek, Gregory J.
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- 2023
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3. Feasibility of patient‐specific quality assurance (PSQA) for real‐time robotic stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) based on tumor motion traces.
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Xu, Qianyi, Fan, Jiajin, Vinogradskiy, Yevgeniy, Chawla, Ashish K., Kubicek, Gregory, Yang, Haihua, Huynh, Kiet, LaCouture, Tamara, Grimm, Jimm, and Nie, Wei
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STEREOTACTIC radiotherapy ,MEDICAL dosimetry ,SYNCHRONIC order ,QUALITY assurance ,ANGLES - Abstract
Purpose: To design a patient specific quality assurance (PSQA) process for the CyberKnife Synchrony system and quantify its dosimetric accuracy using a motion platform driven by patient tumor traces with rotation. Methods: The CyberKnife Synchrony system was evaluated using a motion platform (MODUSQA) and a SRS MapCHECK phantom. The platform was programed to move in the superior‐inferior (SI) direction based on tumor traces. The detector array housed by the StereoPhan was placed on the platform. Extra rotational angles in pitch (head down, 4.0° ± 0.15° or 1.2° ± 0.1°) were added to the moving phantom to examine robot capability of angle correction during delivery. A total of 15 Synchrony patients were performed SBRT PSQA on the moving phantom. All the results were benchmarked by the PSQA results based on static phantom. Results: For smaller pitch angles, the mean gamma passing rates were 99.75% ± 0.87%, 98.63% ± 2.05%, and 93.11% ± 5.52%, for 3%/1 mm, 2%/1 mm, and 1%/1 mm, respectively. Large discrepancy in the passing rates was observed for different pitch angles due to limited angle correction by the robot. For larger pitch angles, the corresponding mean passing rates were dropped to 93.00% ± 10.91%, 88.05% ± 14.93%, and 80.38% ± 17.40%. When comparing with the static phantom, no significant statistic difference was observed for smaller pitch angles (p = 0.1 for 3%/1 mm), whereas a larger statistic difference was observed for larger pitch angles (p < 0.02 for all criteria). All the gamma passing rates were improved, if applying shift and rotation correction. Conclusions: The significance of this work is that it is the first study to benchmark PSQA for the CyberKnife Synchrony system using realistically moving phantoms with rotation. With reasonable delivery time, we found it may be feasible to perform PSQA for Synchrony patients with a realistic breathing pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Seismic reliability evaluation of spatially correlated pipeline networks by quasi-Monte Carlo simulation.
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Hou, Benwei, Xu, Qianyi, Zhong, Zilan, Han, Junyan, Miao, Huiquan, and Du, Xiuli
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The reliability assessment of pipeline networks under nature disasters helps to improve the disaster prevention capability and overall resilience of pipeline networks. For the earthquake hazard, the seismic damage of pipelines in the network is usually correlated due to the spatial correlation of critical parameters, including characteristics of pipeline, soil properties and ground motions. This paper proposes a framework to evaluate the seismic reliability of pipeline network under spatially correlated parameters based on the quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation. The influence of spatial correlated random variables on the seismic reliability of pipeline network is investigated with explicit consideration of the correlated random variables including the peak ground velocity, the wall thickness and the yield stress of pipe segment. The framework has been implemented in seismic reliability evaluation of two pipeline networks. The result shows that the QMC method has better simulation accuracy than the standard MC method under same sampling numbers. The spatial correlations have different influences on the seismic connectivity reliability of pipeline networks with different topological redundancy and parallelism of connective paths from sources to user nodes. For the pipeline network with greater redundancy and parallelism, the model without considering the spatial correlations overestimates the network connectivity reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. Dosimetric comparison of inverse and forward planning for Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery of brain metastases
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Xu, Qianyi, Luo, Dershan, Mulvihill, David, Goldman, Warren, Turtz, Alan, and Kubicek, Gregory J.
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- 2020
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6. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy and Systemic Dose Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Lung Cancer: Single Arm Phase 2 Study
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Kubicek, Gregory J., Khrizman, Polina, Squillante, Christian, Callahan, Kevin, Xu, Qianyi, Abouzgheib, Wissam, Boujaoude, Ziad, Patel, Ashish, and Hageboutros, Alexander
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- 2022
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7. Evaluation of a novel patient-specific quality assurance phantom for robotic single-isocentre, multiple-target stereotactic radiosurgery, and stereotactic radiotherapy.
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Xu, Qianyi, Vinogradskiy, Yevgeniy, Grimm, Jimm, Nie, Wei, Dupre, Pamela, Chawla, Ashish K, Bajaj, Gopal, Yang, Haihua, LaCouture, Tamara, and Fan, Jiajin
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STEREOTACTIC radiotherapy , *STEREOTACTIC radiosurgery , *QUALITY assurance , *SURGICAL robots , *ROBOTICS , *TRACKING radar - Abstract
Objectives To evaluate patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) of 3 targets in a single delivery using a novel film-based phantom. Methods The phantom was designed to rotate freely as a sphere and could measure 3 targets with film in a single delivery. After identifying the coordinates of 3 targets in the skull, the rotation angles about the equator and meridian were computed for optimal phantom setup, ensuring the film plane intersected the 3 targets. The plans were delivered on the CyberKnife system using fiducial tracking. The irradiated films were scanned and processed. All films were analysed using 3 gamma criteria. Results Fifteen CyberKnife test plans with 3 different modalities were delivered on the phantom. Both automatic and marker-based registration methods were applied when registering the irradiated film and dose plane. Gamma analysis was performed using a 3%/1 mm, 2%/1 mm, and 1%/1 mm criteria with a 10% threshold. For the automatic registration method, the passing rates were 98.2% ± 1.9%, 94.2% ± 3.7%, and 80.9% ± 6.3%, respectively. For the marker-based registration approach, the passing rates were 96.4% ± 2.7%, 91.7% ± 4.3%, and 78.4% ± 6.2%, respectively. Conclusions A novel spherical phantom was evaluated for the CyberKnife system and achieved acceptable PSQA passing rates using TG218 recommendations. The phantom can measure true-composite dose and offers high-resolution results for PSQA, making it a valuable device for robotic radiosurgery. Advances in knowledge This is the first study on PSQA of 3 targets concurrently on the CyberKnife system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Large (> 5 cm) Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
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Peterson, Justin, Niles, Christian, Patel, Ashish, Boujaoude, Ziad, Abouzgheib, Wissam, Goldsmith, Ben, Asbell, Sucha, Xu, Qianyi, Khrizman, Polina, and Kubicek, Gregory J.
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- 2017
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9. Assessing base-resolution DNA mechanics on the genome scale.
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Jiang, Wen-Jie, Hu, Congcong, Lai, Futing, Pang, Weixiong, Yi, Xinyao, Xu, Qianyi, Wang, Haojie, Zhou, Jialu, Zhu, Hanwen, Zhong, Chunge, Kuang, Zeyu, Fan, Ruiqi, Shen, Jing, Zhou, Xiaorui, Wang, Yu-Juan, Wong, Catherine C L, Zheng, Xiaoqi, and Wu, Hua-Jun
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- 2023
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10. Quantifying Rigid and Nonrigid Motion of Liver Tumors During Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
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Xu, Qianyi, Hanna, George, Grimm, Jimm, Kubicek, Gregory, Pahlajani, Niraj, Asbell, Sucha, Fan, Jiajin, Chen, Yan, and LaCouture, Tamara
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- 2014
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11. Preoperative Radiosurgery for Soft Tissue Sarcoma
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Kubicek, Gregory J., LaCouture, Tamara, Kaden, Maureen, Kim, Tae Won, Lerman, Nati, Khrizman, Polina, Patel, Ashish, Xu, Qianyi, and Lackman, Richard
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- 2018
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12. The dosimetric impact of the prescription isodose line (IDL) on the quality of robotic stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) plans
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Xu, Qianyi, Fan, Jiajin, Grimm, Jimm, LaCouture, Tamara, Asbell, Sucha, Park, Joo Han, and Kubicek, Gregory
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- 2017
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13. Registration of on-board X-ray images with 4DCT: A proposed method of phase and setup verification for gated radiotherapy
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Xu, Qianyi, He, Zhijun, Fan, Jiajin, Hamilton, Russell J., Chen, Yan, Ma, C.-M., and Xing, Lei
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- 2010
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14. Clinical Study of the Necessity of Replanning Before the 25th Fraction During the Course of Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for Patients With Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Wang, Wei, Yang, Haihua, Hu, Wei, Shan, Guoping, Ding, Weijun, Yu, Changhui, Wang, Biyun, Wang, Xufeng, and Xu, Qianyi
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- 2010
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15. Implementing and evaluating a high‐resolution diode array for patient‐specific quality assurance of robotic brain stereotactic radiosurgery/radiotherapy.
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Xu, Qianyi, Huynh, Kiet, Nie, Wei, Rose, Mark S., Chawla, Ashish K., Choe, Kevin S., Kanani, Samir, Kubicek, Gregory J., and Fan, Jiajin
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STEREOTACTIC radiosurgery ,QUALITY assurance ,DIODES ,TRIGEMINAL neuralgia ,STEREOTACTIC radiotherapy ,CEREBRAL arteriovenous malformations ,STEREOTAXIC techniques - Abstract
The purpose of the study was to introduce and evaluate a high‐resolution diode array for patient‐specific quality assurance (PSQA) of CyberKnife brain stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT). Thirty‐three intracranial plans were retrospectively delivered on the SRS MapCHECK using fixed cone, Iris, and multileaf collimator (MLC). The plans were selected to cover a range of sites from large tumor bed, single/multiple small brain metastases (METs) to trigeminal neuralgia. Fiducial tracking using the four fiducials embedded around the detector plane was used as image guidance. Results were analyzed before and after registration based on absolute dose gamma criterion of 1 mm distance‐to‐agreement and 0.5%–3% dose‐difference. Overall, the gamma passing rates (1 mm and 3% criterion) before registration for all the patients were above 90% for all three treatment modalities (96.8 ± 3.5%, the lowest passing rate of 90.4%), and were improved after registration (99.3 ± 1.5%). When tighter criteria (1 mm and 2%) were applied, the gamma passing rates after registration for all the cases dropped to 97.3 ± 3.2%. For trigeminal neuralgia cases, we applied 1 mm and 0.5% criterion and the passing rates dropped from 100 ± 0.0% to 98.5 ± 2.0%. The mean delivery time was 33.4 ± 11.7 min, 24.0 ± 4.9 min, and 17.1 ± 2.6 min for the fixed cone, Iris, and MLC, respectively. With superior gamma passing rates and reasonable quality assurance (QA) time, we believe the SRS MapCHECK could be a good option for routine PSQA for CyberKnife SRS/SRT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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16. Effect of Serum Spermidine on the Prognosis in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Cohort Study.
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Yu, Zhecong, Jiao, Yundi, Zhang, Jin, Xu, Qianyi, Xu, Jiahui, Li, Ruixue, Yuan, Wei, Guo, Hui, Sun, Zhaoqing, and Zheng, Liqiang
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Background: Spermidine, a natural polyamine, was found critically involved in cardioprotection and lifespan extension from both animal experiments and human studies. Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of serum spermidine levels on the prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and investigate the potential mediation effect of oxidative stress in the above relationship. Methods: We included 377 patients with AMI in a prospective cohort study and measured serum spermidine and oxidative stress indexes (superoxide dismutase enzymes, glutathione peroxidase, and Malondialdehyde) using high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detector and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, respectively. The associations of spermidine with AMI outcomes were evaluated using Cox proportional hazards models. Results: 84 (22.3%) major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were documented during a mean follow-up of 12.3 ± 4.2 months. After multivariable adjustment, participants with serum spermidine levels of ≥15.38 ng/mL (T3) and 7.59–5.38 ng/mL (T2) had hazard ratio (HR) for recurrent AMI of 0.450 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.213–0.984] and 0.441 (95% CI: 0.215–0.907) compared with the ≤7.59 ng/mL (T1), respectively. Participants in T3 and T2 had HR for MACE of 0.566 (95% CI: 0.329–0.947) and 0.516 (95% CI: 0.298–0.893) compared with T1. A faint J-shaped association was observed between serum spermidine levels and the risk of MACE (p-nonlinearity = 0.036). Comparisons of areas under receiver operator characteristics curves confirmed that a model including serum spermidine levels had greater predictive power than the one without it (0.733 versus 0.701, p = 0.041). A marginal statistically significant mediation effect of superoxide dismutase was shown on the association between spermidine and MACE (p = 0.091). Conclusions: Serum spermidine was associated with an improved prognosis in individuals with AMI, whereas the underlying mechanism mediated by oxidative stress was not found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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17. Evaluating the impact of prescription isodose line on plan quality using Gamma Knife inverse planning.
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Xu, Qianyi, Kubicek, Gregory, Mulvihill, David, Goldman, Warren, Eastwick, Gary, Turtz, Alan, Fan, Jiajin, and Luo, Dershan
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The impact of selection of prescription isodose line (IDL) on plan quality has not been well evaluated during inverse planning (IP). In this study, a total of 180 IP plans at five levels of IDL were generated for 30 brain metastases (BMs). For each BM, one round of IP was performed with typical IP settings, followed by a quick fine‐tuning to ensure the same target coverage and comparable conformality index. The impact of the IDL on the quality metrics (selectivity, gradient index [GI], and treatment time) was evaluated. The decrease of selectivity and increase of GI meant inferior target dose conformality and more dose spillage. Additionally, a metric directly correlated to the treatment time was proposed. For all cases, the mean GI decreased monotonically as IDL decreased from 70% to 30%, and the decreasing rate was significantly different based on tumor size. The mean selectivity and number of shots decreased monotonically as IDL decreased for all the tumors. From 70% to 30% IDL, the decreasing rate of the mean selectivity was 2.8% (p = 0.020), 7.7% (p = 0.005), and 15.4% (p = 0.020) and that of the number of shots was 75.4% (p = 0.001), 73.2% (p = 0.001), and 50.7% (p = 0.009), for the large, medium, and small tumors, respectively. For the medium and small tumor groups, the mean treatment time increased monotonically when IDLs decreased (increasing rate was 80.0% [p = 0.002] for medium tumors [p = 0.001] and 130.8% [p = 0.001] for small tumors from 70% to 30%). For the large tumors, the mean treatment time was the shortest at 50% IDL (59.0 min) and higher at 70% (65.9 min) and 30% (71.9 min). Overall, the GammaPlan chose smaller sectors for plans with lower IDLs except for the large size group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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18. Blood Pressure Changes in a Chinese Population Have a Greater Impact on Short-Term Outcomes Rather Than Long-Term Outcomes of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events.
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Xu, Qianyi, Wang, Yali, Xie, Yanxia, Zheng, Jia, Guo, Rongrong, Dai, Yue, Sun, Zhaoqing, Xing, Liying, Zhang, Xingang, Ruan, Shikai, Zheng, Liqiang, and Sun, Yingxian
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BLOOD pressure ,HYPERTENSION ,EVALUATION of medical care ,CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors ,STROKE ,MULTIVARIATE analysis ,CARDIOVASCULAR diseases ,FISHER exact test ,MYOCARDIAL infarction ,RESEARCH funding ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ODDS ratio ,ARRHYTHMIA ,DATA analysis software ,LONGITUDINAL method ,PROPORTIONAL hazards models ,PREHYPERTENSION - Abstract
The purpose of our study was to explore the association of blood pressure (BP) changes on short-and long-term outcomes of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in rural China. This study was designed to learn the effects of BP changes (2004-2008) on short-term (2008-2010, within 2 years of the initial examination) and long-term (2008-2017) outcomes of MACE, including 24 285 and 27 290 participants, respectively. In this study, 423 (short-term) and 1952 (long-term) MACEs were identified. For prehypertension to hypertension, the risk of long-term stroke was increased (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.18 [1.00-1.39]). For hypertension to prehypertension, the short-term MACE risk (0.65 [0.47-0.90]), short-term stroke risk (0.45 [0.26-0.76]), and long-term stroke risk (0.83 [0.70-0.99]) all decreased. Short-term outcomes conferred a stronger impact than long-term outcomes (Fisher Z test, measured as the difference of β coefficients, all P <.05). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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19. Chilli veinal mottle virus HCPro interacts with catalase to facilitate virus infection in Nicotiana tabacum.
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Yang, Ting, Qiu, Long, Huang, Wanying, Xu, Qianyi, Zou, Jialing, Peng, Qiding, Lin, Honghui, and Xi, Dehui
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TOBACCO ,VIRUS diseases ,RNA interference ,PLANT development ,VIRUSES - Abstract
Plant symptoms are derived from specific interactions between virus and host components. However, little is known about viral or host factors that participate in the establishment of systemic necrosis. Here, we showed that helper component proteinase (HCPro), encoded by Chilli veinal mottle virus (ChiVMV), could directly interact with catalase 1 (CAT1) and catalase 3 (CAT3) in the cytoplasm of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants to facilitate viral infection. In vitro , the activities of CAT1 and CAT3 were inhibited by the interaction between HCPro and CATs. The C-terminus of HCPro was essential for their interaction and was also required for the decrease of enzyme activities. Interestingly, the mRNA and protein level of CATs were up-regulated in tobacco plants in response to ChiVMV infection. Nicotiana tabacum plants with HCPro overexpression or CAT1 knockout were more susceptible to ChiVMV infection, which was similar to the case of H
2 O2 -pre-treated plants, and the overexpression of CAT1 inhibited ChiVMV accumulation. Also, neither CAT1 nor CAT3 could affect the RNA silencing suppression (RSS) activity of HCPro. Our results showed that the interaction between HCPro and CATs promoted the development of plant systemic necrosis, revealing a novel role for HCPro in virus infection and pathogenicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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20. A multiple reverse transcription PCR assay for simultaneous detection of four main viruses in kiwifruit.
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Peng, Qiding, Qiu, Long, Yang, Ting, Ning, Jiachen, Xu, Qianyi, Dong, Jiahong, and Xi, Dehui
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Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) is an important horticultural crop in the world. Previous studies showed that a number of viruses were found in kiwifruit around the world. To detect the multiple viruses in kiwifruit quickly and effectively, a multiplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (multiplex RT-PCR) method was developed to detect four viruses simultaneously in kiwifruit: Actinidia chlorotic ringspot-associated virus (AcCRaV), Actinidia virus 1(AcV-1), Actinidia virus A (AcVA), Citrus leaf blotch virus (CLBV), respectively. Four pairs of primers were designed according to the coat protein (CP) genes of the aforementioned viruses and then were confirmed by RT-PCR assay. Actin gene (ACT1) was used as an internal control to improve reliability of the multiplex RT-PCR. Determination of detection limit of the multiplex RT-PCR showed that this method could detect four viruses at the dilution of 10
−4 cDNA. Furthermore, the developed multiplex RT-PCR could detect viruses in kiwifruit field samples successfully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2020
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21. Small field dose measurements using plastic scintillation detector in heterogeneous media.
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Xue, Jinyu, McKay, Jesse D., Grimm, Jimm, Cheng, Chee‐Wai, Berg, Ronald, Grimm, Shu‐Ya Lisa, Xu, Qianyi, Subedi, Gopal, and Das, Indra J.
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RADIATION dosimetry ,DOSE-response relationship (Radiation) ,RADIOTHERAPY treatment planning ,MONTE Carlo method ,SCINTILLATION spectrometry ,STEREOTACTIC radiosurgery - Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate a plastic scintillation detector for the measurement of small field dosimetry and to verify the accuracy of measured dose in comparison with Monte Carlo calculation in a heterogeneous medium. Methods The study is performed with CyberKnife planning and delivery system. The setup consists of a custom made solid lung phantom with the insert of an Exradin W1 scintillation detector or an Exradin A16 ion chamber. The measurement was done for a series of cone sizes from 5 mm to 60 mm, and the dose was calculated by Monte Carlo algorithm in MultiPlan workstation. The difference between measurement and calculation was reported. Results Our preliminary results demonstrated the applicability of plastic scintillation detectors in the measurement of small field dosimetry in a heterogeneous medium. The difference between the calculated and measured output factors was less than 3% for all cone sizes from 60 mm down to 5 mm. Without any corrections, the measured dose from the scintillation detector calibrated to the ion chamber reading was also within 3% of the Monte Carlo calculation in the lung phantom for cone sizes 20 mm or larger. Conclusions Small field dosimetry is particularly relevant to stereotactic radiation treatment. The accuracy of dose calculation for small static beams is critical to dose planning so would potentially affect the treatment outcomes in a heterogeneous medium. Our results have shown good agreement with plastic scintillation detector in both homogeneous and heterogeneous medium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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22. Small Bowel Dose Tolerance for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.
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LaCouture, Tamara A., Xue, Jinyu, Subedi, Gopal, Xu, Qianyi, Lee, Justin T., Kubicek, Gregory, and Asbell, Sucha O.
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Inconsistencies permeate the literature regarding small bowel dose tolerance limits for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) treatments. In this review, we organized these diverse published limits with MD Anderson at Cooper data into a unified framework, constructing the dose-volume histogram (DVH) Risk Map, demonstrating low-risk and high-risk SBRT dose tolerance limits for small bowel. Statistical models of clinical data from 2 institutions were used to assess the safety spectrum of doses used in the exposure of the gastrointestinal tract in SBRT; 30% of the analyzed cases had vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors (VEGFI) or other biological agents within 2 years before or after SBRT. For every dose tolerance limit in the DVH Risk Map, the probit dose-response model was used to estimate the risk level from our clinical data. Using the current literature, 21 Gy to 5 cc of small bowel in 3 fractions has low toxicity and is reasonably safe, with 6.5% estimated risk of grade 3 or higher complications, per Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0. In the same fractionation for the same volume, if lower risk is required, 16.2 Gy has an estimated risk of only 2.5%. Other volumes and fractionations are also reviewed; for all analyzed high-risk small bowel limits, the risk is 8.2% or less, and the low-risk limits have 4% or lower estimated risk. The results support current clinical practice, with some possibility for dose escalation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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23. Dosimetric investigation of accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) using CyberKnife.
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Xu, Qianyi, Chen, Yan, Grimm, Jimm, Fan, Jiajin, An, Lili, Xue, Jinyu, Pahlajani, Niraj, and LaCouture, Tamara
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Purpose: To investigate the dosimetric feasibility of accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) using CyberKnife. Methods: Fourteen previously treated patients with early-stage breast cancer were selected for a retrospective study. Six of these patients had been treated to 38.5 Gy in 10 fractions in a phase III accelerated partial breast trial and the rest of the patients were treated to 50.4 Gy in 28 fractions. In this planning study, the guidelines in the protocol for the phase III partial breast trial were followed for organ delineation and CyberKnife planning. The achievable dosimetric parameters from all CyberKnife plans were compared to Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and 3D-CRT methods. The reproducibility of the dose delivery with and without respiratory motion was assessed through delivering a patient plan to a breast phantom. Different dose calculation algorithms were also compared between ray tracing and Monte Carlo. Results: For all the patients in the study, the dosimetric parameters met the guidelines from the NSABP B39/RTOG 0413 protocol strictly. The mean PTV volume covered by 100% of the prescription dose was 95.7 ± 0.7% (94.7%-97.1%). The mean maximal dose was 104 ± 2% of the prescription dose. The mean V50% and mean V100% to the ipsilateral normal breast were 23.1 ± 11.6% and 9.0 ± 5.8%, respectively. The conformity index of all plans was 1.14 ± 0.04. The maximum dose to the contralateral breast varied from 1.3 cGy to 111 cGy. The mean V5% and mean V30% to the contralateral and ipsilateral lungs were 1.0 ± 1.6% and 1.3 ± 1.2%, respectively. In our study, the mean V5% to the heart was 0.2 ± 0.5% for right-sided tumors and 9.4 ± 10.1% for left-sided tumors. Compared with IMRT and 3D-CRT planning, the PTV coverage from CyberKnife planning was the highest, and the ratio of V20% to V100% of the breast from CyberKnife planning was the smallest. The heart and lung doses were similar in all the techniques except that the V5% for the lung and heart in CyberKnife planning was slightly higher. Conclusions: The dosimetric feasibility of APBI using CyberKnife was investigated in this retrospective study. All the dosimetric parameters strictly met the guidelines from the NSABP B39/RTOG 0413 protocol. With advanced real-time tracking capability, CyberKnife should provide better target coverage and spare nearby critical organs for APBI treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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24. Development and application of a reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification combined with lateral flow dipstick for rapid and visual detection of Citrus leaf blotch virus in kiwifruit.
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Peng, Qiding, Ning, Jiachen, Xu, Qianyi, Yang, Ting, Wang, Yunru, Zheng, Tianrui, Zhuang, Qiguo, and Xi, Dehui
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Citrus leaf blotch virus (CLBV) commonly occurs in some horticultural crops including kiwifruit. Sichuan Province is one of the major kiwifruit producing areas in southwestern China. In order to investigate the occurrence of CLBV infecting kiwifruit in Sichuan Province, an efficient reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) combined with a lateral flow dipstick (LFD) was established as an effective diagnostic method for visually detecting the occurrence of CLBV. In the present study, a set of LAMP specific primers were designed based on the conserved region of coat protein gene of CLBV and the RT-LAMP-LFD assay could be accomplished in 60 min after extraction and cDNA synthesis. The optimized RT-LAMP-LFD method showed high specificity and sensitivity to CLBV, and displayed 1000 times higher sensitivity than that of conventional RT-PCR. Furthermore, 90 kiwifruit samples collected from Sichuan Province were screened by this developed method. The results showed that the incidence of CLBV in kiwifruit was 20% in Sichuan Province. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that all the CLBV Sichuan isolates were divided into different branches in group I and has some genetic distance with other host plants like citrus, rose and sweet cherry. Over all, this study provides a time saving and highly efficient diagnostic tool for monitoring CLBV infection status in kiwifruit. • A rapid and efficient RT-LAMP-LFD method was developed for the detection of CLBV in kiwifruits. • The RT-LAMP-LFD could be completed in 60 min (50 min for RT-LAMP, 10 min for LFD) after extraction and cDNA synthesis. • The RT-LAMP-LFD method was 1000-fold more sensitive than the conventional RT-PCR. • The incidence and genetic variation of CLBV on kiwifruits in Sichuan Province were evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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25. Stereotactic body radiotherapy as an alternative to brachytherapy in gynecologic cancer.
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Kubicek, Gregory J, Xue, Jinyu, Xu, Qianyi, Asbell, Sucha O, Hughes, Leslie, Kramer, Noel, Youssef, Ashraf, Chen, Yan, Aikens, James, Saul, Howard, Pahlajani, Niraj, and Lacouture, Tamara
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Introduction. Brachytherapy plays a key role in the treatment of many gynecologic cancers. However, some patients are unable to tolerate brachytherapy for medical or other reasons. For these patients, stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) offers an alternative form of treatment. Methods. Retrospective review of patients prospectively collected on SBRT database is conducted. A total of 11 gynecologic patients who could not have brachytherapy received SBRT for treatment of their malignancies. Five patients have been candidates for interstitial brachytherapy, and six have required tandem and ovoid brachytherapy. Median SBRT dose was 25 Gy in five fractions. Results. At last followup, eight patients were alive, and three patients had died of progressive disease. One patient had a local recurrence. Median followup for surviving patients was 420 days (median followup for all patients was 120 days). Two patients had acute toxicity (G2 dysuria and G2 GI), and one patient had late toxicity (G3 GI, rectal bleeding requiring cauterization). Conclusions. Our data show acceptable toxicity and outcome for gynecologic patients treated with SBRT who were unable to receive a brachytherapy boost. This treatment modality should be further evaluated in a phase II study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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