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Overview

Robert J. Olson is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the medical field, with a significant number of publications in Medicine.

The subfields of study that Olson is most involved in include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Oncology, Surgery, and Radiation. These areas highlight their extensive engagement with cancer treatment and diagnostic techniques.

Olson's main research topics cover a range of specialized subjects:

  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Management of metastatic bone disease
  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Brain Metastases and Treatment
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
  • Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Frequent collaborators in Olson's work include Devin Schellenberg, Benjamin Mou, Mitchell Liu, Scott Tyldesley, and David A. Palma, indicating a network of coauthors often contributing to related studies.

Their publications appear regularly in several venues known for oncology and radiotherapy research, including:

  • Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Current Oncology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Clinical Oncology

Selected recent papers by Olson and colleagues illustrate the focus on stereotactic ablative radiotherapy as a treatment for oligometastatic cancers. These papers include:

  • Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for the Comprehensive Treatment of Oligometastatic Cancers: Long-Term Results of the SABR-COMET Phase II Randomized Trial, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Stereotactic Radiation for the Comprehensive Treatment of Oligometastases (SABR-COMET): Extended Long-Term Outcomes, 2022, International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for the Comprehensive Treatment of Oligometastatic Cancers: Long-Term Results of the SABR-COMET Phase II Randomized Trial, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for the comprehensive treatment of 1-3 Oligometastatic tumors (SABR-COMET-3): study protocol for a randomized phase III trial, 2020, BMC Cancer
  • Treatment With Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Up to 5 Oligometastases in Patients With Cancer, 2022, JAMA Oncology

Best Publications

  • Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations.

    R I Amann;B J Binder;R J Olson;S W Chisholm

  • A novel free-living prochlorophyte abundant in the oceanic euphotic zone

    Sallie W. Chisholm;Robert J. Olson;Erik R. Zettler;Ralf Goericke

  • Phytoplankton population dynamics at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series station in the Sargasso Sea

    Michele D DuRand;Michele D DuRand;Robert J Olson;Sallie W Chisholm

  • A submersible imaging-in-flow instrument to analyze nano-and microplankton: Imaging FlowCytobot

    Robert J. Olson;Heidi M. Sosik

  • Prochlorococcus marinus nov. gen. nov. sp.: an oxyphototrophic marine prokaryote containing divinyl chlorophyll a and b

    Sallie W. Chisholm;Sheila L. Frankel;Ralf Goericke;Robert J. Olson

  • Automated taxonomic classification of phytoplankton sampled with imaging-in-flow cytometry

    Heidi M. Sosik;Robert J. Olson

  • Spatial and temporal distributions of prochlorophyte picoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Robert J. Olson;Sallie W. Chisholm;Erik R. Zettler;Mark A. Altabet

  • Insight into the Trophic Ecology of Yellowfin Tuna, Thunnus albacares, from Compound‐Specific Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Proteinaceous Amino Acids

    Brian N. Popp;Brittany S. Graham;Robert J. Olson;Cecelia C.S. Hannides

  • Growth of Prochlorococcus, a Photosynthetic Prokaryote, in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Daniel Vaulot;Dominique Marie;Robert J. Olson;Sallie W. Chisholm

  • Pigments, size, and distributions of Synechococcus in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

    Robert J. Olson;Sallie W. Chisholm;Erik R. Zettler;E. Virginia Armbrust

  • DIFFERENTIAL PHOTOINHIBITION OF MARINE NITRIFYING BACTERIA: A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR THE FORMATION OF THE PRIMARY NITRITE MAXIMUM

    Rj Olson;Olson Rj

  • Food selection by copepods: discrimination on the basis of food quality

    T. J. Cowles;R. J. Olson;S. W. Chisholm

  • Animal C^ /C^ correlates with trophic level in pelagic food webs

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  • Silicon availability and cell-cycle progression in marine diatoms

    MA Brzezinski;RJ Olson;SW Chisholm

  • Visualizing the Food-Web Effects of Fishing for Tunas in the Pacific Ocean

    Jefferson T. Hinke;Isaac C. Kaplan;Kerim Aydin;George M. Watters

  • Microbial food web structure in the Arabian Sea: a US JGOFS study

    David L. Garrison;Marcia M. Gowing;Margaret P. Hughes;Lisa D. Campbell

  • Apex Predation by Yellowfïn Tuna (Thunnus albacares): Independent Estimates from Gastric Evacuation and Stomach Contents, Bioenergetics, and Cesium Concentrations

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  • Phytoplankton Analysis Using Flow Cytometry

    Robert J. Olson;Erik R. Zettler;Michele D. DuRand

  • Marine phytoplankton distributions measured using shipboard flow cytometry

    R.J. Olson;D. Vaulot;S.W. Chisholm

  • Nitrate and ammonium uptake in Antarctic waters1

    Robert J. Olson

  • Another look at the nitrite and chlorophyll maxima in the central North Pacific

    D.A. Kiefer;R.J. Olson;O. Holm-Hansen

  • First harmful Dinophysis (Dinophyceae, Dinophysiales) bloom in the U.S. is revealed by automated imaging flow cytometry.

    Lisa Campbell;Robert J. Olson;Heidi M. Sosik;Ann Abraham

  • Analysis of Synechococcus pigment types in the sea using single and dual beam flow cytometry

    R.J. Olson;S.W. Chisholm;E.R. Zettler;E.V. Armbrust

  • PHOTOINHIBITION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN NATURAL WATERS

    Raymond C. Smith;Karen S. Baker;Osmund Holm-Hansen;Robert Olson

Frequent Co-Authors

Heidi M. Sosik
Heidi M. Sosik Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Lisa Campbell
Lisa Campbell Texas A&M University
Daniel Vaulot
Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique De Roscoff
Andrew R. Solow
Andrew R. Solow Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ralf Goericke
Ralf Goericke Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Donald M. Anderson
Donald M. Anderson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Paul G. Rodhouse
Paul G. Rodhouse British Antarctic Survey
Osmund Holm-Hansen
Osmund Holm-Hansen University of California, San Diego
Carl J. Watras
Carl J. Watras University of Wisconsin–Madison

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