Veerle Visser‐Vandewalle

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Dr. Veerle Visser‐Vandewalle is a leading researcher in the fields of stereotactic radiosurgery and radiomics, with a particular focus on improving treatment outcomes for lung cancer and neurosurgical patients. Her major contributions include pioneering the use of radiomic analysis of planning computed tomograms to predict radiation-induced lung injury and oncologic outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with robotic stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Her 2019 paper on this topic has garnered 44 citations, and her subsequent 2021 multi-institutional study, with 29 citations, further validated these predictive models, demonstrating their potential to personalize treatment and reduce toxicity. Dr. Visser‐Vandewalle has also made significant strides in comparing stereotactic technologies, as seen in her 2014 work on intracranial radiosurgery (33 citations) and her 2022 phantom study on the accuracy of robotic versus frame-based systems (16 citations). Her research is instrumental in advancing precision medicine, offering clinicians powerful tools to optimize radiation delivery and improve patient quality of life.

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1. 1
   Radiomic analysis of planning computed tomograms for predicting radiation-induced lung injury and outcome in lung cancer patients treated with robotic stereotactic body radiation therapy

   44 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery with an adapted linear accelerator vs. robotic radiosurgery

   33 citations · 2014
3. 3
   Radiomics for prediction of radiation-induced lung injury and oncologic outcome after robotic stereotactic body radiotherapy of lung cancer: results from two independent institutions

   29 citations · 2021
4. 4
   Accuracy of Robotic and Frame-Based Stereotactic Neurosurgery in a Phantom Model

   16 citations · 2022

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