Layout optimization of the beam spot locations scanned by electromagnets in particle beam therapy
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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Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy for Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Biliary Tract [PDF]
Cureus, 2017 Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma of childhood with 250-350 cases diagnosed annually in the United States. Biliary tract rhabdomyosarcoma is rare, representing
Pater, Luke +2 more
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One-Dimensional Beam Scanning Transmitarray Lens Antenna Fed by Microstrip Linear Array
IEEE Access, 2019 This paper proposed a one-dimensional beam scanning transmitarray lens antenna fed by a microstrip linear array antenna which owns a wide pattern in the plane orthogonal to the array axis and a narrow pattern in the plane that includes the array axis ...
Na Kou +3 more
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Determination of Integral Depth Dose in Proton Pencil Beam Using Plane-parallel Ionization Chambers [PDF]
International Journal of Particle Therapy, 2022 Purpose: This study aimed to determine the integral depth-dose curves and assess the geometric collection efficiency of different detector diameters in proton pencil beam scanning.
Phatthraporn Thasasi, MSc +3 more
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EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 The dose distributions from proton pencil beam scanning were calculated by FLUKA, GEANT4, MCNP, and PHITS, in order to investigate their applicability in proton radiotherapy.
Yang Zi-Yi +6 more
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Collimating individual beamlets in pencil beam scanning proton therapy, a dosimetric investigation
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 The purpose of this work is to investigate collimating individual proton beamlets from a dosimetric perspective and to introduce a new device concept, the spot scanning aperture (SSA).
Jason Holmes +6 more
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Successful Implementation of Image-Guided Pencil-Beam Scanning Proton Therapy in Medulloblastomas
Diagnostics, 2023 Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, while much rarer in adults. Although the prognosis and outcomes have greatly improved in the era of modern multidisciplinary management, long-term treatment-induced toxicities are ...
Anindita Das +9 more
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Simultaneous Multiple Liver Metastasis Treated with Pencil Beam Proton Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) [PDF]
International Journal of Particle Therapy, 2021 Compared with photon stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) plans that may have to use many more penetrating x-ray beams for each isocenter, proton SBRT with ultrahypofractionated doses use fewer beam angles and offer significantly reduced low-dose ...
Neil K. Taunk, MD, MSCTS +3 more
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Pencil‐beam scanning proton therapy for the treatment of glomus jugulare tumours
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 2022 Introduction Glomus jugulare tumours (GJT) are benign tumours that arise locally and destructively in the base of the skull and can be successfully treated with radiotherapy.
Jiří Kubeš +13 more
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Characterization and performance evaluation of the first-proton therapy facility in India
Journal of Medical Physics, 2020 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance characteristic of volumetric image-guided dedicated-nozzle pencil beam-scanning proton therapy (PT) system.
Dayananda Sharma Shamurailatpam +6 more
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