http://ejgo.org The 4th International Workshop of the Asian Society of Gynecologic Oncology (ASGO) was held in the Sendai International Center on 12 November 2016. One hundred sixty-three participants from 7 countries (China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand) gathered in the meeting and Dr. Nobuo Yaegashi (Japan) served as the President. Following the 11th ASGO council m...

A new image registration algorithm based on phase-only correlation is applied to portal images in radiation therapy to detect translational shift. The phase-only correlation shows a sharp peak in the correlation distribution as compared to the broad peak computed from conventional correlation using fast Fourier transform. In this paper, the algorithm of phase-only correlation is described and i...

Radiation oncology is a relatively young specialty that has evolved as a subspecialized discipline over the past 30 years. Although the use of radiation for therapeutic purposes has been studied for the last century, it has only been relatively recently that the formal specialty has been recognized. Originally, training in the use of radiation for therapeutic purposes was included as part of di...

Rades et al (1), in the American Society for Radiation Oncologyesponsored journal Practical Radiation Oncology, describe a retrospective European multicenter study examining palliative radiation therapy for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression of 4 Gy in 5 fractions and whether an overall treatment time of 5 days was superior to that of 7 days; no outcome improvement was seen for treatme...