Mitsuhiro Nakamura

We have studied the absorption spectrum of argon in the 50-\AA{} region. The discrete structure observed near the ${L}_{\mathrm{II},\mathrm{III}}$ edge is attributed to the excitations of a $2p$ electron to the high-lying Rydberg states which converge to the $^{2}P_{\frac{3}{2}}({L}_{\mathrm{III}})$ and $^{2}P_{\frac{1}{2}}({L}_{\mathrm{II}})$ states of the argon ion. The energy values of the ${L}_{\mathrm{II}}$ and ${L}_{\mathrm{III}}$ levels of the argon atom are found to be 250.55 \ifmmode\pm

In the phantom evaluations, AXB and XVMC agreed better with measurements than did AAA. Calculations differed in the density-changing zones (substance boundaries) between AXB/XVMC and AAA. In the lung SBRT cases, a comparative analysis of dose-volumetric data and dose distributions with XVMC demonstrated that the AXB provided better agreement with XVMC than AAA. The computation time of AXB was faster than that of XVMC; therefore, AXB has better balance in terms of the dosimetric performance and c

Our dose-segmented dosiomic approach improved the prediction of the incidence of RP after SBRT.

This study aims to assess the impact of motion velocity that may cause motion artifacts on target volumes (TVs) using a one-dimensional moving phantom. A 20 mm diameter spherical object embedded in a QUASAR phantom sinusoidally moved with approximately 5.0 or 10.0 mm amplitude (A) along the longitudinal axis of the computed tomography (CT) couch. The motion period was manually set in the range of 2.0-10.0 s at approximately 2.0 s interval. Four-dimensional (4D) CT images were acquired by a four-

Since stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) was started for patients with lung tumor in 1998 in our institution, x-ray fluoroscopic examination and slow computed tomography (CT) scan with a rotation time of 4 s have been routinely applied to determine target volumes. When lung tumor motion observed with x-ray fluoroscopy is larger than 8 mm, diaphragm control (DC) is used to reduce tumor motion during respiration. After the installation of a four-dimensional (4D) CT scanner in 2006, 4D CT images

Application of IR Tracking substantially reduced the geometric error caused by respiratory motion; however, an intrafractional error due to baseline drift of >3 mm was occasionally observed. To compensate for EBD, the authors recommend checking the target and IR marker positions constantly and updating the 4D model several times during a treatment session.

Abdominal compression was effective for reducing the amplitude of tumor motion. However, in most of the authors' patients, the use of abdominal compression seemed to increase the interfraction variation in tumor position, despite reducing lung tumor motion. The daily tumor position deviated more systematically from the tumor position in the planning CT scan in the lateral and longitudinal directions in patients treated with abdominal compression compared to those treated without compression. The