Claus Belka

26.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
644 papers, 16.8k citations indexed

About

Claus Belka is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Claus Belka has authored 644 papers receiving a total of 16.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 335 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 219 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 186 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Claus Belka's work include Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (177 papers), Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (123 papers) and Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (96 papers). Claus Belka is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (177 papers), Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (123 papers) and Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (96 papers). Claus Belka collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and United States. Claus Belka's co-authors include Maximilian Niyazi, Wilfried Budach, Ute Ganswindt, Kirsten Lauber, Verena Jendrossek, Minglun Li, Klaus Schulze‐Osthoff, Stefanie Corradini, Guillaume Landry and Patrizia Marini and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Claus Belka

612 papers receiving 16.6k 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.

Apoptotic Cells Induce Migration of Phagocytes via Caspase-3-Mediated Release of a Lipid Attraction Signal

2003 756 citations Claus Belka et al. profile →
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: biological hallmarks, current status, and future perspectives of combined modality treatment approaches

2019 326 citations Claus Belka et al. Radiation Oncology profile →
MR-guidance in clinical reality: current treatment challenges and future perspectives

2019 264 citations Stefanie Corradini, Filippo Alongi et al. Radiation Oncology profile →
ESTRO-EANO guideline on target delineation and radiotherapy details for glioblastoma

2023 90 citations Maximilian Niyazi, Claus Belka et al. Radiotherapy and Oncology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Enhancing patient-specific deep learning based segmentation for abdominal magnetic resonance imaging-guided radiation therapy: A framework conditioned on prior segmentation 2025 ·Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology ·(unknown), (unknown), Claus Belka, Stefanie Corradini, Nassir Navab, Thomas Wendler, Shadi Albarqouni, Guillaume Landry, Christopher Kurz	1
2	Deep learning-based contour propagation in magnetic resonance imaging-guided radiotherapy of lung cancer patients 2025 ·Physics in Medicine and Biology ·(unknown), Chukwuka Eze, (unknown), Daniela Thorwarth, (unknown), Julian Taugner, Juliane Hörner‐Rieber, Sebastian Regnery, Oliver Jäkel, Fabian Weykamp, M. Palacios, Sebastian Marschner, Stefanie Corradini, Claus Belka, Christopher Kurz, Guillaume Landry, Moritz Rabe	0
3	Auto-segmentation of pelvic organs at risk on 0.35T MRI using 2D and 3D Generative Adversarial Network models 2024 ·Physica Medica ·(unknown), (unknown), Angela Romano, Giuditta Chiloiro, Luca Boldrini, (unknown), (unknown), Guillaume Landry, Christopher Kurz, Stefanie Corradini, Claus Belka, Luca Indovina, Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Lorenzo Placidi, Davide Cusumano	9
4	Personalized deep learning auto‐segmentation models for adaptive fractionated magnetic resonance‐guided radiation therapy of the abdomen 2024 ·Medical Physics ·(unknown), Sebastian Marschner, (unknown), (unknown), Stefanie Corradini, Claus Belka, Guillaume Landry, Christopher Kurz	4
5	PSMA-PET/CT response after metastasis-directed radiotherapy of bone oligometastases in prostate cancer 2024 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Christian Trapp, Nina-Sophie Schmidt-Hegemann, Alexander Büchner, Christian G. Stief, Marcus Unterrainer, Wolfgang G. Kunz, Clemens C. Cyran, (unknown), (unknown), Mathias J. Zacherl, Adrien Holzgreve, Lena M. Unterrainer, Matthias Brendel, Claus Belka, Minglun Li, Paul Rogowski	2
6	FET PET-based target volume delineation for the radiotherapy of glioblastoma: A pictorial guide to help overcome methodological pitfalls 2024 ·Radiotherapy and Oncology ·Adrien Holzgreve, Alexander Nitschmann, Sebastian H. Maier, (unknown), Stephan Schönecker, Sebastian Marschner, Daniel F. Fleischmann, Stefanie Corradini, Claus Belka, Christian la Fougère, Raphael Bodensohn, Nathalie L. Albert, Maximilian Niyazi	7
7	Privacy-friendly evaluation of patient data with secure multiparty computation in a European pilot study 2024 ·npj Digital Medicine ·Hendrik Ballhausen, Stefanie Corradini, Claus Belka, Dan Bogdanov, Luca Boldrini, (unknown), (unknown), Guillaume Landry, (unknown), Katia Parodi, Riivo Talviste, (unknown), Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Sebastian Marschner	4
8	Proton dose calculation with LSTM networks in presence of a magnetic field 2024 ·Physics in Medicine and Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), Niklas Wahl, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sebastian Marschner, (unknown), Claus Belka, G. Dedes, Christopher Kurz, Guillaume Landry	3
9	Adjuvant (chemo)radiotherapy for patients with head and neck cancer: can comorbidity risk scores predict outcome? 2024 ·Strahlentherapie und Onkologie ·Sebastian Marschner, Cornelius Maihöfer, (unknown), (unknown), D. Reitz, (unknown), Lars Schüttrumpf, Philipp Baumeister, (unknown), Julia Heß, Horst Zitzelsberger, Kristian Unger, Claus Belka, Franziska Walter	1
10	Advances in rectal cancer: Real-world evidence suggests limited gains in prognosis for elderly patients 2023 ·Cancer Epidemiology ·Kathrin Halfter, G. Schubert-Fritschle, Falk Röder, Mia Kim, J. Kent Werner, Claus Belka, Hendrik A. Wolff, Ali Agha, Martin Fuchs, Helmut Frieß, (unknown), Bertram Häussler, Jutta Engel, Anne Schlesinger‐Raab	0
11	Pulmonary magnetic resonance-guided online adaptive radiotherapy of locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: the PUMA trial 2023 ·Radiation Oncology ·Sebastian Regnery, (unknown), Chukwuka Eze, Stefanie Corradini, Christian Thieke, Oliver Sedlaczek, Heinz‐Peter Schlemmer, Julien Dinkel, Ferdinand Seith, Annette Kopp‐Schneider, (unknown), (unknown), Guillaume Landry, Daniela Thorwarth, Daniel Zips, Claus Belka, Oliver Jäkel, Jürgen Debus, Juliane Hörner‐Rieber	8
12	Dosimetric feasibility analysis and presentation of an isotoxic dose-escalated radiation therapy concept for glioblastoma used in the PRIDE trial (NOA-28; ARO-2022-12) 2023 ·Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology ·Raphael Bodensohn, Daniel F. Fleischmann, Sebastian H. Maier, (unknown), Sylvia Garny, Alexander Nitschmann, (unknown), (unknown), Stephan Schönecker, Kristian Unger, (unknown), Frank Paulsen, Daniela Thorwarth, Adrien Holzgreve, Nathalie L. Albert, Stefanie Corradini, Ghazaleh Tabatabai, Claus Belka, Maximilian Niyazi	2
13	Feasibility of CycleGAN enhanced low dose CBCT imaging for prostate radiotherapy dose calculation 2023 ·Physics in Medicine and Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), Katia Parodi, Claus Belka, Guillaume Landry, Christopher Kurz	10
14	Analysis of genetic variants of frequently mutated genes in human papillomavirus‐negative primary head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, resection margins, local recurrences and corresponding circulating cell‐free DNA 2022 ·Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine ·(unknown), Jörg Kumbrink, Christoph Walz, (unknown), G. Drexler, Claus Belka, Martin Canis, Andreas Jung, Philipp Baumeister	15
15	A deep image-to-image network organ segmentation algorithm for radiation treatment planning: principles and evaluation 2022 ·Radiation Oncology ·Sebastian Marschner, Manasi Datar, (unknown), Zhoubing Xu, Saša Grbić, Guillaume Chabin, (unknown), Julian Rosenman, (unknown), Maximilian Niyazi, Tobias Heimann, Christian Möhler, (unknown), Claus Belka, (unknown)	15
16	Porcine lung phantom-based validation of estimated 4D-MRI using orthogonal cine imaging for low-field MR-Linacs 2020 ·Physics in Medicine and Biology ·Moritz Rabe, Chiara Paganelli, Marco Riboldi, (unknown), Moritz Schneider, Thomas A. Chmielewski, G. Baroni, Julien Dinkel, Michael Reiner, Guillaume Landry, Katia Parodi, Claus Belka, Florian Kamp, Christopher Kurz	21
17	Impact of surface-guided positioning on the use of portal imaging and initial set-up duration in breast cancer patients 2019 ·Strahlentherapie und Onkologie ·Montserrat Pazos, Franziska Walter, D. Reitz, Stephan Schönecker, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Filippo Alongi, P. Freislederer, Maximilian Niyazi, Claus Belka, Stefanie Corradini	17
18	Evaluation of daily patient positioning for radiotherapy with a commercial 3D surface-imaging system (Catalyst™) 2016 ·Radiation Oncology ·Franziska Walter, P. Freislederer, Claus Belka, C. Heinz, Matthias Söhn, Falk Roeder	75
19	Dihydroartemisinin Induces Apoptosis by a Bak-Dependent Intrinsic Pathway 2010 ·Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·René Handrick, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jan Dürig, Claus Belka, Verena Jendrossek	77
20	Cystosarcoma phyllodes malignum: a case report of a successive triple modality treatment 2000 ·International Journal of Hyperthermia ·Frank Paulsen, Claus Belka, (unknown), Wilfried Budach, (unknown), Thomas Hehr, Godehard Friedel, H. Wolf	1

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