Development and characterization of a versatile mini‐beam collimator for pre‐clinical photon beam irradiation

C Stengl, E Arbes, LYJ Thai, G Echner… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Interest in spatial fractionation radiotherapy has exponentially increased over
the last decade as a significant reduction of healthy tissue toxicity was observed by mini‐…

Computational design of anti-CRISPR proteins with improved inhibition potency

…, W Sun, MD Hoffmann, C Stengl… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins are powerful tools to control CRISPR–Cas technologies. However,
the available Acr repertoire is limited to naturally occurring variants. Here, we applied …

[HTML][HTML] Development of an artificial 3D liver phantom for analysis of radiotherapeutic effects in vitro

C Stengl, S Ghafoory, A Weidner, B Murphy, S Wölfl - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over recent decades, stereotactic body radiotherapy has garnered increasing popularity.
Unfortunately, conventional preclinical 2D in vitro models are often insufficient for studying …

The distribution of human surfactant proteins within the oral cavity and their role during infectious diseases of the gingiva

M Schicht, C Stengl, S Sel, F Heinemann… - Annals of Anatomy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The oral cavity with the teeth and the surrounding gingival epithelium, the periodontium, the
salivary glands and other structures are open to the oral environment and thus exposed to …

Optogenetic control of Neisseria meningitidis Cas9 genome editing using an engineered, light-switchable anti-CRISPR protein

…, Z Harteveld, S Aschenbrenner, C Stengl… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Optogenetic control of CRISPR–Cas9 systems has significantly improved our ability to perform
genome perturbations in living cells with high precision in time and space. As new Cas …

Optically stimulated luminescence detectors for dosimetry and LET measurements in light ion beams

…, ID Muñoz, N Bassler, C Stengl… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. This work investigates the use of Al 2 O 3: C and Al 2 O 3: C, Mg optically stimulated
luminescence (OSL) detectors to determine both the dose and the radiation quality in light …

A phantom to simulate organ motion and its effect on dose distribution in carbon ion therapy for pancreatic cancer

C Stengl, K Panow, E Arbes, ID Muñoz… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Carbon ion radiotherapy is a promising radiation technique for malignancies like
pancreatic cancer. However, organs' motion imposes challenges for achieving …

An abdominal phantom with anthropomorphic organ motion and multimodal imaging contrast for MR-guided radiotherapy

A Weidner, C Stengl, F Dinkel, S Dorsch… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Purpose. Improvements in image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) enable accurate and precise
treatment of moving tumors in the abdomen while simultaneously sparing healthy tissue. …

Detection of surfactant proteins A, B, C, and D in human gingiva and saliva

L Bräuer, M Schicht, C Stengl, F Heinemann, W Götz… - 2012 - degruyter.com
Background: The oral cavity along with the teeth and the surrounding gingival epithelium is
open to the oral environment and is thus exposed to multiple microbiological and pathogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Oxygen Gradient Induced in Microfluidic Chips Can Be Used as a Model for Liver Zonation

S Ghafoory, C Stengl, S Kopany, M Mayadag… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Availability of oxygen plays an important role in tissue organization and cell-type specific
metabolism. It is, however, difficult to analyze hypoxia-related adaptations in vitro because of …