Considerations for upright particle therapy patient positioning and associated image guidance

L Volz, Y Sheng, M Durante, C Graeff - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Particle therapy is a rapidly growing field in cancer therapy. Worldwide, over 100 centers are
in operation, and more are currently in construction phase. The interest in particle therapy is …

Status and innovations in pre-treatment CT imaging for proton therapy

P Wohlfahrt, C Richter - The British journal of radiology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Pre-treatment CT imaging is a topic of growing importance in particle therapy. Improvements
in the accuracy of stop**-power prediction are demanded to allow for a dose conformality …

Latest developments in in-vivo imaging for proton therapy

K Parodi - The British journal of radiology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Owing to the favorable physical and biological properties of swift ions in matter, their
application to radiation therapy for highly selective cancer treatment is rapidly spreading …

Image guidance for FLASH radiotherapy

I El Naqa, BW Pogue, R Zhang, I Oraiqat… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH‐RT) is an emerging ultra‐high dose (> 40 Gy/s)
delivery that promises to improve the therapeutic potential by limiting toxicities compared to …

Validation of the proton range accuracy and optimization of CT calibration curves utilizing range probing

A Meijers, J Free, D Wagenaar, S Deffet… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Proton therapy is affected by range uncertainty, which is partly caused by an ambiguous
conversion from x-ray attenuation to proton stop** power. CT calibration curves, or …

Experimental exploration of a mixed helium/carbon beam for online treatment monitoring in carbon ion beam therapy

L Volz, L Kelleter, S Brons, L Burigo… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, it has been proposed that a mixed helium/carbon beam could be used for online
monitoring in carbon ion beam therapy. Fully stripped, the two ion species exhibit …

A comparison of proton stop** power measured with proton CT and x‐ray CT in fresh postmortem porcine structures

DF DeJongh, EA DeJongh, V Rykalin… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Currently, calculations of proton range in proton therapy patients are based on a
conversion of CT Hounsfield units of patient tissues into proton relative stop** power …

Experimental comparison of photon versus particle computed tomography to predict tissue relative stop** powers

E Bär, L Volz, CA Collins‐Fekete, S Brons… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Measurements comparing relative stop** power (RSP) accuracy of state‐of‐the‐
art systems representing single‐energy and dual‐energy computed tomography …

Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging

TM Ostermayr, C Kreuzer, FS Englbrecht… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Radiographic imaging with x-rays and protons is an omnipresent tool in basic research and
applications in industry, material science and medical diagnostics. The information …

Regularised patient-specific stop** power calibration for proton therapy planning based on proton radiographic images

N Krah, V Patera, S Rit, A Schiavi… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Proton transmission imaging has been proposed and investigated as imaging modality
complementary to x-ray based techniques in proton beam therapy. In particular, it addresses …