Alan E. Nahum

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
157 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Alan E. Nahum is a scholar working on Radiation, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan E. Nahum has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Radiation, 88 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 79 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Alan E. Nahum's work include Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (119 papers), Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (65 papers) and Radiation Dose and Imaging (27 papers). Alan E. Nahum is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (119 papers), Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry (65 papers) and Radiation Dose and Imaging (27 papers). Alan E. Nahum collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Alan E. Nahum's co-authors include S Webb, John D. Fenwick, B. Sánchez‐Nieto, Alison J. D. Scott, David P. Dearnaley, Diana Tait, Vincent Khoo, Alan Horwich, John Yarnold and Paul Mobit and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics.

In The Last Decade

Alan E. Nahum

155 papers receiving 5.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Comparison of radiation side-effects of conformal and conventional radiotherapy in prostate cancer: a randomised trial

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alan E. Nahum	4.5k	3.8k	2.7k	800	303	157	5.5k
Carlos De Wagter	3.9k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	147 0.5×	143	5.4k
Ali S. Meigooni	3.9k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	200 0.7×	120	4.9k
W. F. Hanson	4.8k 1.1×	3.4k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	145 0.5×	79	5.8k
Tatsuaki Kanai	5.1k 1.1×	5.9k 1.6×	1.9k 0.7×	354 0.4×	223 0.7×	178	6.9k
Indra J. Das	6.1k 1.4×	4.2k 1.1×	3.9k 1.5×	1.6k 2.0×	160 0.5×	295	7.2k
Larry A. DeWerd	4.7k 1.1×	3.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.8×	288 1.0×	214	5.5k
Slobodan Dević	3.1k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	647 0.8×	201 0.7×	154	4.3k
Sam Beddar	6.0k 1.3×	5.0k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	664 0.8×	290 1.0×	248	7.3k
Jan Seuntjens	7.1k 1.6×	6.0k 1.6×	4.7k 1.8×	1.8k 2.2×	456 1.5×	307	9.1k
M. Saiful Huq	5.4k 1.2×	3.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	93 0.3×	104	5.9k

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Stavrev, Pavel, Nadejda Stavreva, Ruggero Ruggieri, Alan E. Nahum, & D. Pressyanov. (2022). Analysis of tumour dose–response data from animal experiments via two TCP models accounting for tumor hypoxia and resensitization. Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine. 45(4). 1093–1102. 1 indexed citations

Stavrev, Pavel, et al.. (2021). Analysis of a cohort of prostate patients treated with HDR mono-brachytherapy. Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine. 44(2). 487–495. 1 indexed citations

Stavreva, Nadejda, et al.. (2019). Modelling the effect of spread in radiosensitivity parameters and repopulation rate on the probability of tumour control. Physica Medica. 63. 79–86. 4 indexed citations

Tommasino, Francesco, Alan E. Nahum, & Laura Cella. (2017). Increasing the power of tumour control and normal tissue complication probability modelling in radiotherapy: recent trends and current issues. Translational Cancer Research. 6. 7 indexed citations

Ruggieri, Ruggero, Pavel Stavrev, S. Naccarato, et al.. (2017). Optimal dose and fraction number in SBRT of lung tumours: A radiobiological analysis. Physica Medica. 44. 188–195. 24 indexed citations

Stavrev, Pavel, Nadejda Stavreva, Ruggero Ruggieri, & Alan E. Nahum. (2015). On differences in radiosensitivity estimation: TCP experiments versus survival curves. A theoretical study. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 60(15). N293–N299. 9 indexed citations

Borasi, Giovanni, et al.. (2014). Experimental evidence for the use of ultrasound to increase tumor-cell radiosensitivity. Translational Cancer Research. 3(5). 512–520. 2 indexed citations

Li, X. Allen, M. Alber, Joseph O. Deasy, et al.. (2012). The use and QA of biologically related models for treatment planning: Short report of the TG-166 of the therapy physics committee of the AAPM. Medical Physics. 39(3). 1386–1409. 193 indexed citations

Nahum, Alan E., et al.. (2012). Radiobiologically guided optimisation of the prescription dose and fractionation scheme in radiotherapy using BioSuite. British Journal of Radiology. 85(1017). 1279–1286. 49 indexed citations

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Baker, Colin, et al.. (2010). Mechanistic simulation of normal-tissue damage in radiotherapy-–implications for dose–volume analyses. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 55(8). 2121–2136. 26 indexed citations

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Scott, Alison J. D., Alan E. Nahum, & John D. Fenwick. (2009). Monte Carlo modeling of small photon fields: Quantifying the impact of focal spot size on source occlusion and output factors, and exploring miniphantom design for small‐field measurements. Medical Physics. 36(7). 3132–3144. 67 indexed citations

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Iori, Mauro, E. Cagni, Marta Paiusco, Peter R. T. Munro, & Alan E. Nahum. (2009). Dosimetric verification of IMAT delivery with a conventional EPID system and a commercial portal dose image prediction tool. Medical Physics. 37(1). 377–390. 36 indexed citations

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Valdagni, R., et al.. (2005). Is the alpha–beta ratio of prostate cancer really low? A prospective, non-randomized trial comparing standard and hyperfractionated conformal radiation therapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 75(1). 74–82. 62 indexed citations

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Seco, Joao, et al.. (2003). Incorporation of a combinatorial geometry package and improved scoring capabilities in the EGSnrc Monte Carlo Code system. Medical Physics. 30(6). 1076–1085. 3 indexed citations

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Tait, Diana, et al.. (1999). Comparison of proton therapy and conformal X-ray therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).. British Journal of Radiology. 72(863). 1078–1084. 30 indexed citations

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Bedford, J., Peter J. Childs, Alan E. Nahum, et al.. (1998). A comparison of conventional and conformal radiotherapy of the oesophagus: work in progress.. British Journal of Radiology. 71(850). 1076–1082. 14 indexed citations

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Mobit, Paul, Philip Mayles, & Alan E. Nahum. (1996). The quality dependence of LiF TLD in megavoltage photon beams: Monte Carlo simulation and experiments. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 41(3). 387–398. 67 indexed citations

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Nahum, Alan E., et al.. (1995). Monte Carlo calculated stem effect corrections for NE2561 and NE2571 chambers in medium-energy X-ray beams. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 40(1). 63–72. 26 indexed citations

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Webb, S & Alan E. Nahum. (1993). A model for calculating tumour control probability in radiotherapy including the effects of inhomogeneous distributions of dose and clonogenic cell density. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 38(6). 653–666. 403 indexed citations

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Tait, Diana, et al.. (1988). Benefits expected from simple conformal radiotherapy in the treatment of pelvic tumours. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 13(1). 23–30. 20 indexed citations

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