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Total Citations
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About
Oliver Blanck is a distinguished radiation oncologist and medical physicist whose research has profoundly shaped the field of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and radiosurgery. His work spans several critical domains, including liver oligometastasis treatment, brain metastasis management, spinal radiosurgery, and the emerging frontier of cardiac radioablation. Blanck's contributions to clinical SBRT are exemplified by his landmark 2018 multicenter analysis of liver oligometastases involving 474 patients across German institutions, which has garnered over 150 citations and established critical patterns of care for this challenging patient population. His early technical work on the iris collimator for robotic radiosurgery (127 citations) demonstrated his ability to bridge engineering innovation with clinical application, improving treatment precision and efficiency. A recurring theme in Blanck's research is advancing adaptive radiotherapy, as evidenced by his multi-institutional dosimetric comparison study (95 citations) and pioneering investigations into cardiac radioablation for arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation — a genuinely novel therapeutic frontier. His international benchmark studies for spinal and lung SBRT treatment planning further demonstrate his commitment to standardizing and elevating global radiotherapy practice. Collectively, his body of work, accumulating hundreds of citations, has meaningfully advanced precision radiation medicine worldwide.
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- 6Planning benchmark study for SBRT of early stage NSCLC54 citations · 2017
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- 10Treatment planning for spinal radiosurgery35 citations · 2018