Organs at Risk

"Organs at Risk" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Organs which might be damaged during exposure to a toxin or to some form of therapy. It most frequently refers to healthy organs located in the radiation field during radiation therapy.

Descriptor ID	D058958
MeSH Number(s)	A01.635
Concept/Terms	Organs at Risk Organs at Risk Organs at Risks Risk, Organs at Risks, Organs at at Risk, Organs at Risks, Organs

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Anatomy [A]
Body Regions [A01]
Organs at Risk [A01.635]

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Bar chart showing 42 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2011	0	2	2
2012	3	1	4
2013	1	0	1
2015	1	1	2
2016	0	5	5
2017	2	3	5
2018	4	3	7
2019	2	2	4
2020	2	2	4
2021	0	2	2
2022	0	1	1
2023	0	3	3
2024	0	1	1
2025	1	0	1

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Gray T, Liu CW, Ahmed S, Kolano AM, Donaghue J, Koyfman S, Woody N, Campbell SR, Farr JB, Xia P. Assessing proton plans with three different beam delivery systems versus photon plans for head and neck tumors. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2025 May; 26(5):e70013.

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Xu Q, Fan J, Vinogradskiy Y, Chawla AK, Kubicek G, Yang H, Huynh K, LaCouture T, Grimm J, Nie W. Feasibility of patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) for real-time robotic stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) based on tumor motion traces. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2024 Aug; 25(8):e14352.

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Ngo N, Blomain ES, Simiele E, Romero I, Hoppe RT, Hiniker SM, Kovalchuk N. Improved organ sparing using auto-planned Stanford volumetric modulated arc therapy for total body irradiation technique. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 10; 70(10):e30589.

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Maduro Bustos LA, Sarkar A, Doyle LA, Andreou K, Noonan J, Nurbagandova D, Shah SA, Irabor OC, Mourtada F. Feasibility evaluation of novel AI-based deep-learning contouring algorithm for radiotherapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2023 Nov; 24(11):e14090.

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Hobbis D, Yu NY, Mund KW, Duan J, Rwigema JM, Wong WW, Schild SE, Keole SR, Feng X, Chen Q, Vargas CE, Rong Y. First Report On Physician Assessment and Clinical Acceptability of Custom-Retrained Artificial Intelligence Models for Clinical Target Volume and Organs-at-Risk Auto-Delineation for Postprostatectomy Patients. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2023 Jul-Aug; 13(4):351-362.

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Kovalchuk N, Simiele E, Skinner L, Yang Y, Howell N, Lewis J, Hui C, Blomain E, Hoppe RT, Hiniker SM. The Stanford Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Total Body Irradiation Technique. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2022 May-Jun; 12(3):245-258.

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Dougherty JM, Castillo E, Castillo R, Faught AM, Pepin M, Park SS, Beltran CJ, Guerrero T, Grills I, Vinogradskiy Y. Functional avoidance-based intensity modulated proton therapy with 4DCT derived ventilation imaging for lung cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2021 Jul; 22(7):276-285.

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Simiele E, Skinner L, Yang Y, Blomain ES, Hoppe RT, Hiniker SM, Kovalchuk N. A Step Toward Making VMAT TBI More Prevalent: Automating the Treatment Planning Process. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2021 Sep-Oct; 11(5):415-423.

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Blomain ES, Kovalchuk N, Neilsen BK, Skinner L, Hoppe RT, Hiniker SM. A Preliminary Report of Gonadal-Sparing TBI Using a VMAT Technique. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2021 Mar-Apr; 11(2):e134-e138.

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Watkins WT, Nourzadeh H, Siebers JV. Dose escalation in the definite target volume. Med Phys. 2020 Jul; 47(7):3174-3183.

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