Adolf Coray

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

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Adolf Coray is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiation and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Adolf Coray has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 12 papers in Radiation and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Adolf Coray's work include Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (17 papers), Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (8 papers) and Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (8 papers). Adolf Coray is often cited by papers focused on Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (17 papers), Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (8 papers) and Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (8 papers). Adolf Coray collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Adolf Coray's co-authors include Antony Lomax, Shixiong Lin, Stefan Scheib, T. Böhringer, Eros Pedroni, H. Blattmann, Martin Großmann, T. Boehringer, Gudrun Goitein and Gudrun Munkel and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Physiology, International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics and Physics in Medicine and Biology.

In The Last Decade

Adolf Coray

28 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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The 200‐MeV proton therapy project at the Paul Scherrer Institute: Conceptual design and practical realization

1995 484 citations Eros Pedroni, R. Bacher et al. Medical Physics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adolf Coray Switzerland	20	1.8k	1.6k	364	361	154	28	2.1k
Shinichi Minohara Japan	18	2.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	303 0.8×	918 2.5×	125 0.8×	53	2.5k
Yasuyuki Futami Japan	16	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	270 0.7×	359 1.0×	83 0.5×	39	1.6k
Ludovic De Marzi France	23	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	217 0.6×	447 1.2×	30 0.2×	102	1.6k
Nicolas Depauw United States	20	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	155 0.4×	369 1.0×	32 0.2×	71	1.5k
C. Nauraye France	21	1.2k 0.6×	968 0.6×	163 0.4×	426 1.2×	67 0.4×	50	1.6k
Kiyomitsu Kawachi Japan	12	1.1k 0.6×	786 0.5×	192 0.5×	285 0.8×	107 0.7×	22	1.3k
Charles Fouillade France	15	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	241 0.7×	593 1.6×	163 1.1×	29	1.9k
T. Haberer Germany	21	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	478 1.3×	307 0.9×	26 0.2×	50	1.7k
Takashi Akagi Japan	22	1.1k 0.6×	921 0.6×	146 0.4×	222 0.6×	42 0.3×	75	1.4k
Nobuyuki Kanematsu Japan	27	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	449 1.2×	512 1.4×	61 0.4×	107	2.2k

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Fontana, A., Eugen B. Hug, Antony Lomax, et al.. (2013). Deficiency in Homologous Recombination Renders Mammalian Cells More Sensitive to Proton Versus Photon Irradiation. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 88(1). 175–181. 103 indexed citations

Nadrowitz, Roger, Adolf Coray, T. Boehringer, Jürgen Dunst, & Dirk Rades. (2012). A liquid fluorescence dosimeter for proton dosimetry. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 57(5). 1325–1333. 8 indexed citations

Lin, Shixiong, T. Boehringer, Adolf Coray, Martin Großmann, & Eros Pedroni. (2009). More than 10 years experience of beam monitoring with the Gantry 1 spot scanning proton therapy facility at PSI. Medical Physics. 36(11). 5331–5340. 58 indexed citations

Rutz, Hans, Damien C. Weber, Gudrun Goitein, et al.. (2008). Postoperative Spot-Scanning Proton Radiation Therapy for Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma in Children and Adolescents: Initial Experience at Paul Scherrer Institute. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 71(1). 220–225. 54 indexed citations

Weber, Damien C., Hans Rutz, Alessandra Bolsi, et al.. (2007). Spot Scanning Proton Therapy in the Curative Treatment of Adult Patients With Sarcoma: The Paul Scherrer Institute Experience. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 69(3). 865–871. 19 indexed citations

Timmermann, Beate, Andreas Schuck, Felix Niggli, et al.. (2006). Spot-scanning proton therapy for malignant soft tissue tumors in childhood: First experiences at the Paul Scherrer Institute. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 67(2). 497–504. 52 indexed citations

Lomax, Antony, Francesca Albertini, T. Boehringer, et al.. (2006). 58 Spot scanning proton therapy: Treatment planning and treatment verification. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 78. S21–S21. 3 indexed citations

Rutz, Hans, Damien C. Weber, Shinji Sugahara, et al.. (2006). Extracranial chordoma: Outcome in patients treated with function-preserving surgery followed by spot-scanning proton beam irradiation. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 67(2). 512–520. 79 indexed citations

Scheib, Stefan, T. Böhringer, Adolf Coray, et al.. (2005). Experimental characterization and physical modelling of the dose distribution of scanned proton pencil beams. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 50(3). 541–561. 256 indexed citations

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Gueulette, John, H. Blattmann, Eros Pedroni, et al.. (2005). Relative biologic effectiveness determination in mouse intestine for scanning proton beam at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. Influence of motion. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 62(3). 838–845. 43 indexed citations

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Pedroni, Eros, T. Böhringer, Adolf Coray, et al.. (2004). The PSI Gantry 2: a second generation proton scanning gantry. Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik. 14(1). 25–34. 149 indexed citations

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Lomax, Antony, T. Boehringer, Adolf Coray, et al.. (2001). Intensity modulated proton therapy: A clinical example. Medical Physics. 28(3). 317–324. 206 indexed citations

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Luijk, Peter van, T. Böhringer, Adolf Coray, et al.. (2000). Performance of a fluorescent screen and CCD camera as a two-dimensional dosimetry system for dynamic treatment techniques. Medical Physics. 27(10). 2198–2208. 82 indexed citations

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Pedroni, Eros, T. Böhringer, Adolf Coray, et al.. (1999). Initial experience of using an active beam delivery technique at PSI. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie. 175(S2). 18–20. 38 indexed citations

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Pedroni, Eros, R. Bacher, H. Blattmann, et al.. (1995). The 200‐MeV proton therapy project at the Paul Scherrer Institute: Conceptual design and practical realization. Medical Physics. 22(1). 37–53. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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Greiner, Richard, Gudrun Munkel, H. Blattmann, et al.. (1992). Conformal radiotherapy for unresectable retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 22(2). 333–341. 21 indexed citations

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Phillips, Mark H., et al.. (1992). Effects of respiratory motion on dose uniformity with a charged particle scanning method. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 37(1). 223–233. 222 indexed citations

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Blattmann, H. & Adolf Coray. (1990). A horizontal proton beam line for the development of a scanning technique. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 17(1). 17–20. 3 indexed citations

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Greiner, Richard, H. Blattmann, P Thum, et al.. (1989). Dynamic pion irradiation of unresectable soft tissue sarcomas. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 17(5). 1077–1083. 5 indexed citations

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Thum, P, Richard Greiner, H. Blattmann, Adolf Coray, & A. Zimmermann. (1988). [Pion radiotherapy of unresectable soft tissue sarcomas at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research].. PubMed. 164(12). 714–23. 2 indexed citations

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