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Dragan Mirkovic
Researcher at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Publications - 75
Citations - 2370
Dragan Mirkovic is an academic researcher from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Proton therapy & Monte Carlo method. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 72 publications receiving 2043 citations. Previous affiliations of Dragan Mirkovic include University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston & German Cancer Research Center.
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Clinical evidence of variable proton biological effectiveness in pediatric patients treated for ependymoma.
C. Peeler,C. Peeler,Dragan Mirkovic,Uwe Titt,Pierre Blanchard,Pierre Blanchard,Jillian R. Gunther,Anita Mahajan,Radhe Mohan,David R. Grosshans +9 more
TL;DR: The authors' correlation of changes on MR images after proton therapy with increased LET constitutes the first clinical evidence of variable proton biological effectiveness.
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An evaluation of three commercially available metal artifact reduction methods for CT imaging
Jessie Y. Huang,J Kerns,J Kerns,J Nute,J Nute,Xinming Liu,Peter A Balter,Francesco C. Stingo,Francesco C. Stingo,David S Followill,Dragan Mirkovic,Rebecca M. Howell,Stephen F Kry +12 more
TL;DR: All three artifact mitigation methods may benefit patients with metal implants, though they should be used with caution in certain scenarios, and both the O-MAR and MARs algorithms induced artifacts for spinal fixation rods in a thoracic phantom.
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The risk of developing a second cancer after receiving craniospinal proton irradiation.
Wayne D. Newhauser,Wayne D. Newhauser,Jonas D. Fontenot,Jonas D. Fontenot,Anita Mahajan,David G. Kornguth,Marilyn Stovall,Y Zheng,Phillip J. Taddei,Dragan Mirkovic,Radhe Mohan,James D. Cox,Shiao Y. Woo +12 more
TL;DR: Simulations revealed that both passively scattered and scanned-beam proton therapies confer significantly lower risks of second cancers than 6 MV conventional and intensity-modulated photon therapies.
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Spatial mapping of the biologic effectiveness of scanned particle beams: towards biologically optimized particle therapy
Fada Guan,Lawrence Bronk,Uwe Titt,Steven H. Lin,Dragan Mirkovic,M Kerr,X. Ronald Zhu,Jeffrey Dinh,Mary Sobieski,Clifford Stephan,C Peeler,Reza Taleei,Radhe Mohan,David R. Grosshans +13 more
TL;DR: Measured biologic effects were substantially greater than in most previous reports, and non-linear surviving fraction response was observed even for the highest LET values, which could generate data needed to optimize proton therapy plans incorporating variable RBE.
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National Cancer Institute Workshop on Proton Therapy for Children: Considerations Regarding Brainstem Injury.
Daphne A. Haas-Kogan,Daniel J. Indelicato,Harald Paganetti,Natia Esiashvili,Anita Mahajan,Anita Mahajan,Torunn I. Yock,Stella Flampouri,Shannon M. MacDonald,Maryam Fouladi,Kry Stephen,John A. Kalapurakal,Stephanie A. Terezakis,Hanne M. Kooy,David R. Grosshans,Mike Makrigiorgos,Kavita Mishra,Tina Young Poussaint,Kenneth J. Cohen,Thomas J. Fitzgerald,Vinai Gondi,Arthur K. Liu,Jeff M. Michalski,Dragan Mirkovic,Radhe Mohan,Stephanie M. Perkins,Kenneth Wong,Bhadrasain Vikram,Jeff Buchsbaum,Larry E. Kun +29 more
TL;DR: Findings from the National Cancer Institute Workshop on Proton Therapy for Children convened in May 2016 are summarized, finding brainstem injury is a rare complication of radiation therapy for both photons and protons and increased capability exists to incorporate LET optimization.