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Alvaro Martinez

Alvaro Martinez

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Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
35076
World Ranking
6836
National Ranking
3608

Overview

Alvaro Martinez is affiliated with Beaumont Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to medical research. Their work spans multiple disciplines within medicine, notably focusing on areas such as pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, oncology, and radiation.

The scientist's research interests include prostate cancer treatment and research, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, advanced radiotherapy techniques, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, mathematical biology applied to tumor growth, CAR-T cell therapy research, and studies on viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Universal scaling laws rule explosive growth in human cancers, 2020, Nature Physics
  • Hyaluronic Acid Spacer for Hypofractionated Prostate Radiation Therapy, 2023, JAMA Oncology
  • Evolutionary dynamics at the tumor edge reveal metabolic imaging biomarkers, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • CAR T cell therapy in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: Insights from mathematical models, 2020, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
  • Low Dose Brain Irradiation Reduces Amyloid-β and Tau in 3xTg-AD Mice, 2020, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alvaro Martinez include:

  • Víctor M. Pérez-García
  • Salvador Chulián
  • M. Rosa
  • Manuel Ramírez
  • Juan Belmonte-Beitia

They have been published repeatedly in several prominent scientific venues, including:

  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Clinical & Translational Oncology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Alvaro Martinez's main fields of study consist of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach to biomedical research. Their subfields and specific areas of focus reflect a combination of clinical and molecular techniques applied to cancer and related biological systems.

Best Publications

  • Flat-panel cone-beam computed tomography for image-guided radiation therapy

    David A Jaffray;Jeffrey H Siewerdsen;John W Wong;Alvaro A Martinez

  • Adaptive radiation therapy

    Di Yan;Frank Vicini;John Wong;Alvaro Martinez

  • Uterine papillary serous carcinoma: a highly malignant form of endometrial adenocarcinoma.

    Michael Hendrickson;Jon Ross;Patricia Eifel;Alvaro Martinez

  • Direct evidence that prostate tumors show high sensitivity to fractionation (low α/β ratio), similar to late-responding normal tissue

    David J Brenner;Alvaro A Martinez;Gregory K Edmundson;Christina Mitchell

  • Significant reductions in heart and lung doses using deep inspiration breath hold with active breathing control and intensity-modulated radiation therapy for patients treated with locoregional breast irradiation.

    Vincent M Remouchamps;Frank A Vicini;Michael B Sharpe;Larry L Kestin

  • A radiographic and tomographic imaging system integrated into a medical linear accelerator for localization of bone and soft-tissue targets

    David A Jaffray;David A Jaffray;Douglas G Drake;Douglas G Drake;Michel Moreau;Alvaro A Martinez

  • Prostate gland motion assessed with cine-magnetic resonance imaging (cine-MRI).

    Michel J. Ghilezan;David A. Jaffray;Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen;Marcel Van Herk

  • An off-line strategy for constructing a patient-specific planning target volume in adaptive treatment process for prostate cancer.

    Di Yan;David Lockman;Donald Brabbins;Laura Tyburski

  • Intensity modulation to improve dose uniformity with tangential breast radiotherapy: initial clinical experience.

    Larry L Kestin;Michael B Sharpe;Robert C Frazier;Frank A Vicini

  • Optimizing breast cancer treatment efficacy with intensity-modulated radiotherapy

    Frank A Vicini;Michael Sharpe;Larry Kestin;Alvaro Martinez

  • Potential for reduced toxicity and dose escalation in the treatment of inoperable non–small-cell lung cancer: A comparison of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), 3D conformal radiation, and elective nodal irradiation

    Inga S Grills;Di Yan;Alvaro A Martinez;Frank A Vicini

  • Defining A radiotherapy target with positron emission tomography

    Quinten C. Black;Inga S. Grills;Larry L. Kestin;Ching Yee O. Wong

  • Limited-Field Radiation Therapy in the Management of Early-Stage Breast Cancer

    Frank A. Vicini;Larry Kestin;Peter Chen;Pamela Benitez

  • Accelerated partial breast irradiation using 3D conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT)

    Kathy L Baglan;Michael B Sharpe;David Jaffray;Robert C Frazier

  • Phase II prospective study of the use of conformal high-dose-rate brachytherapy as monotherapy for the treatment of favorable stage prostate cancer: a feasibility report.

    Alvaro A Martinez;Istvan Pataki;Gregory Edmundson;Evelyn Sebastian

  • The dose-volume realationship of acute small bowel toxicity from concurrent 5-FU-based chemotherapy and radiation therapy for rectal cancer

    Kathy L Baglan;Robert C Frazier;Di Yan;Raywin R Huang

  • Cone-beam-CT guided radiation therapy: Technical implementation

    Daniel Létourneau;John W. Wong;Mark Oldham;Misbah Gulam

  • High Dose Rate Brachytherapy as Prostate Cancer Monotherapy Reduces Toxicity Compared to Low Dose Rate Palladium Seeds

    Inga S. Grills;Alvaro A. Martinez;Mitchell Hollander;Raywin Huang

  • Initial clinical experience with moderate deep-inspiration breath hold using an active breathing control device in the treatment of patients with left-sided breast cancer using external beam radiation therapy.

    Vincent M. Remouchamps;Nicola Letts;Frank A. Vicini;Michael B. Sharpe

  • Dosimetric characteristics of the MammoSite RTS, a new breast brachytherapy applicator.

    Gregory K Edmundson;Frank A Vicini;Peter Y Chen;Christina Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank A. Vicini
Frank A. Vicini Beaumont Health
Larry L. Kestin
Larry L. Kestin Beaumont Health
Di Yan
Di Yan Beaumont Health
John Wong
John Wong Johns Hopkins University
David A. Jaffray
David A. Jaffray The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
George D. Wilson
George D. Wilson Beaumont Health
Eric M. Horwitz
Eric M. Horwitz Fox Chase Cancer Center
Patrick A. Kupelian
Patrick A. Kupelian University of California, Los Angeles
Howard D. Thames
Howard D. Thames The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Anthony L. Zietman
Anthony L. Zietman Harvard University

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