Roadmap: proton therapy physics and biology

H Paganetti, C Beltran, S Both, L Dong… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The treatment of cancer with proton radiation therapy was first suggested in 1946 followed
by the first treatments in the 1950s. As of 2020, almost 200 000 patients have been treated …

A review of dose calculation approaches with cone beam CT in photon and proton therapy

V Giacometti, AR Hounsell, CK McGarry - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The use of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) for
performing dose calculations in radiation therapy has been widely investigated as it could …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of interplay and organ motion effects by means of 4D dose reconstruction and accumulation

A Meijers, AC Knopf, APG Crijns, JF Ubbels… - Radiotherapy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Pencil beam scanned proton therapy (PBS-PT) treatment quality might be
compromised by interplay and motion effects. Via fraction-wise reconstruction of 4D dose …

Deep learning–based 4D‐synthetic CTs from sparse‐view CBCTs for dose calculations in adaptive proton therapy

A Thummerer, C Seller Oria, P Zaffino, S Visser… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Time‐resolved 4D cone beam–computed tomography (4D‐CBCT) allows a
daily assessment of patient anatomy and respiratory motion. However, 4D‐CBCTs suffer …

[HTML][HTML] Towards the clinical implementation of intensity-modulated proton therapy for thoracic indications with moderate motion: Robust optimised plan evaluation by …

CO Ribeiro, S Visser, EW Korevaar… - Radiotherapy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Compared to volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), clinical benefits are
anticipated when treating thoracic tumours with intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) …

An optimized framework for cone‐beam computed tomography‐based online evaluation for proton therapy

CW Chang, R Nilsson, S Andersson… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Clinical evidence has demonstrated that proton therapy can achieve
comparable tumor control probabilities compared to conventional photon therapy but with …

Porcine lung phantom-based validation of estimated 4D-MRI using orthogonal cine imaging for low-field MR-Linacs

M Rabe, C Paganelli, M Riboldi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Real-time motion monitoring of lung tumors with low-field magnetic resonance imaging-
guided linear accelerators (MR-Linacs) is currently limited to sagittal 2D cine magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] ScatterNet for projection-based 4D cone-beam computed tomography intensity correction of lung cancer patients

H Schmitz, A Thummerer, M Kawula… - Physics and Imaging in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose: In radiotherapy, dose calculations based on 4D cone beam CTs
(4DCBCTs) require image intensity corrections. This retrospective study compared the dose …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning-based fast volumetric image generation for image-guided proton FLASH radiotherapy

CW Chang, Y Lei, T Wang, S Tian, J Roper, L Lin… - Research …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: FLASH radiotherapy leverages ultra-high dose-rate radiation to enhance the
sparing of organs at risk without compromising tumor control probability. This may allow …

Validation of proton dose calculation on scatter corrected 4D cone beam computed tomography using a porcine lung phantom

H Schmitz, M Rabe, G Janssens… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Proton therapy treatment for lungs remains challenging as images enabling the detection of
inter-and intra-fractional motion, which could be used for proton dose adaptation, are not …