16 Treatment Facilities, Human Resource Development, and Future Prospect of Particle Beam Therapy
Radioisotopes, 2015exaly
Particle beam therapy for nasopharyngeal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 2022 Background/purpose: A systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to better understand the benefits of particle beam therapy for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) treatment.
Wai Tong Ng +6 more
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A Critical Review of Radiation Therapy: From Particle Beam Therapy (Proton, Carbon, and BNCT) to Beyond [PDF]
Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2021 In this paper, we discuss the role of particle therapy-a novel radiation therapy (RT) that has shown rapid progress and widespread use in recent years-in multidisciplinary treatment.
Yoshitaka Matsumoto +2 more
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Accelerators, Gantries, Magnets and Imaging Systems for Particle Beam Therapy: Recent Status and Prospects for Improvement [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 The paper begins by emphasizing the clinical and commercial importance of proton or other charged particle such as carbon ion therapy, refers to the manufacturers of such systems of which more than 120 are installed or under construction worldwide by ...
Edward W. Collings +3 more
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Layout optimization of the beam spot locations scanned by electromagnets in particle beam therapy [PDF]
Mechanical Engineering Journal, 2022 This paper presents a layout optimization method of the spot locations of pencil beam scanning for particle beam cancer therapy. With the pencil beam scanning technique, the particle beam is scanned from spot to spot in the tumor by using scanning ...
Yusuke SAKAMOTO +4 more
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Particle Beam Therapy Tolerance and Outcome on Patients with Autoimmune Diseases: A Single Institution Matched Case-Control Study. [PDF]
Cancers (Basel), 2021 It is unclear whether autoimmune diseases (ADs) may predispose patients to higher radiation-induced toxicity, and no data are available regarding particle therapy.
Riva G +12 more
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Computer‐assisted beam modeling for particle therapy [PDF]
Medical Physics, 2021 Purpose To develop a computer‐driven and thus less user‐dependent method, allowing for a simple and straightforward generation of a Monte Carlo (MC) beam model of a scanned proton and carbon ion beam delivery system.
Andreas F. Resch +15 more
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A Beam Monitor for Ion Beam Therapy Based on HV-CMOS Pixel Detectors
Instruments, 2023 Particle therapy is a well established clinical treatment of tumors. More than one hundred particle therapy centers are in operation world-wide. The advantage of using hadrons like protons or carbon ions as particles for tumor irradiation is the distinct
Alexander Dierlamm +15 more
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