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Tomas Kron

Honorary
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
radiology, nuclear medicine & medical imaging
humans
oncology
radiotherapy
radiotherapy planning, computer-assisted
radiotherapy dosage
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Projects

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Magnetic Resonance Image Guided Single Fraction Preoperative Radiotherapy for Early Breast Cancer

2020 - 2024
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STEREOTACTIC ABLATIVE RADIOTHERAPY (SABR) AS A NEW PRECISION TREATMENT OPTION IN KIDNEY CANCER

2018 - 2021
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STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY (SBRT) AS A NEW STANDARD OF CARE FOR SPINAL METASTASES

Secondary spread of cancer to the spine affects about 40% of all cancer patients. The current standard of care, radiotherapy, does not provi..

2018 - 2020
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FAST AND EFFICIENT ASSESSMENT OF DOSE IN SMALL TARGETS IN RADIOTHERAPY: EFFECT OF MOTION IN CLINICAL RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DYNAMIC THERAPY

The continued progress of radiation therapy for cancer patients has been driven by technology developments that have increased the complexit..

2017 - 2019
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REDUCING THE GREATEST UNCERTAINTY IN RADIOTHERAPY

The weakest link in radiotherapy is defining treatment volumes (contouring). Lack of accuracy and consistency in clinical trial contouring h..

2016 - 2018
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HART (HEART AVOIDING RADIATION THERAPY)

2015 - 2017
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INVESTIGATING THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY, QUALITY OF LIFE, COST-EFFICIENCY AND IMMUNE POTENTIAL OF HIGH PRECISION LUNG RADIOTHERAPY

2015 - 2019
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BREATHE WELL: IMPROVING CANCER IMAGING AND TARGETED RADIOTHERAPY USING AUDIOVISUAL BIOFEEDBACK

Irregular breathing causes anatomical errors in medical images and consequently cancer targeting accuracy, resulting in poorer clinical outc..

2015 - 2017
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PRECISION HIGH DOSE RADIOTHERAPY WITH A NEW TECHNIQUE COMPARED WITH TRADITIONAL RADIOTHERAPY OF LUNG CANCER

2014 - 2017
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Balancing higher cure rates with reduced side effects for cancer radiation therapy when using daily image guidance

When using radiotherapy to kill tumours, the radiation beams need to be targeted at the tumour, plus a margin of error around it to ensure t..

2012 - 2014
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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Tomas Kron.

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The interlace deposition method of bone equivalent material extrusion 3D printing for imaging in radiotherapy

R Tino, A Yeo, M Brandt, M Leary, T Kron

Journal article  |  2021  |  Materials & Design

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Consistency of small-field dosimetry, on and off axis, in beam-matched linacs used for stereotactic radiosurgery.

Luis Muñoz, Tomas Kron, Marco Petasecca, Joseph Bucci, Michael Jackson, Peter Metcalfe, Anatoly B Rosenfeld, Giordano Biasi

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

PURPOSE: Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) can be delivered with a standard linear accelerator (linac). At institutions having more ..

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Thermoluminescence Dosimetry (TLD) In Medicine: Five 'W's And One How.

Tomas Kron, Peta Lonski, Eduardo G Yukihara

Journal article  |  2021  |  Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Thermoluminescence dosimetry (TLD) has a long history of applications in medicine. However, despite its versatility and sensitivit..

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Applications of Optically Stimulated Luminescence in Medical Dosimetry.

Eduardo G Yukihara, Tomas Kron

Journal article  |  2021  |  Radiation Protection Dosimetry

If the first decade of the new millennium saw the establishment of a more solid foundation for the use of the Optically Stimulated..

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Protocol for tumour-focused dose-escalated adaptive radiotherapy for the radical treatment of bladder cancer in a multicentre phase II randomised controlled trial (RAIDER): radiotherapy planning and delivery guidance.

Shaista Hafeez, Amanda Webster, Vibeke N Hansen, Helen A McNair, Karole Warren-Oseni, Emma Patel, Ananya Choudhury, Joanne Creswell, Farshad Foroudi, Ann Henry, Tomas Kron, Duncan B McLaren, Anita V Mitra, Hugh Mostafid, Daniel Saunders, Elizabeth Miles, Clare Griffin, Rebecca Lewis, Emma Hall, Robert Huddart

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Open

INTRODUCTION: Daily radiotherapy delivered with radiosensitisation offers patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) comp..

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A retrospective analysis of setup and intrafraction positional variation in stereotactic radiotherapy treatments

Micah Barnes, Adam Yeo, Kenton Thompson, Claire Phillips, Tomas Kron, Nicholas Hardcastle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to provide a comprehensive assessment of patient intrafraction motion in linac-based frameless ..

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Infill selection for 3D printed radiotherapy immobilisation devices

Amirhossein Asfia, Basaula Deepak, James Novak, Bernard Rolfe, Tomas Kron

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express

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Suitability of PSMA-PET Biology-Guided Radiotherapy for Low Volume Metastases in Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer

M Gaudreault, N Hardcastle, P Jackson, J Callahan, T Kron, C Huntzinger, S Shirvani, A Da Silva, MS Hofman, GG Hanna, S Siva

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics

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Stereotactic Ablative Fractionated Radiotherapy versus Radiosurgery for Oligometastatic Neoplasia to the Lung: A Randomized Phase II Trial

S Siva, M Bressel, T Kron, T Mai, HV Le, R Montgomery, N Hardcastle, A Rezo, S Gill, BG Higgs, DI Pryor, R De Abreu Lourenco, R Awad, B Chesson, TN Eade, M Skala, G Sasso, W Wong, S Vinod, D Ball

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics

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Reproducibility of Head and Neck MRI Radiomic Features Between Two Common Analysis Packages

J Korte, CE Cardenas, T Kron, N Hardcastle, J Wang, H Bahig, B Elgohari, LE Court, CD Fuller, SP Ng

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics

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Keyword Analysis

Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Expanding Knowledge
Clinical Sciences
Other Physical Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Statistics
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology
Computer Software

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Honorary

The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

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