A systematic review of let-guided treatment plan optimisation in proton therapy: identifying the current state and future needs

M McIntyre, P Wilson, P Gorayski, E Bezak - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The increasing global demand and accessibility for proton beam therapy
has been fueled by its recognised clinical benefits over traditional radiotherapy, primarily its …

Impact of Relative Biologic Effectiveness for Proton Therapy for Head and Neck and Skull-Base Tumors: A Technical and Clinical Review

AL Holtzman, H Mohammadi, KM Furutani, DM Koffler… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Proton therapy is a crucial tool for head and neck and skull-base cancers,
offering benefits over photon therapy by lowering the risk of adverse effects. However, its full …

Long-term outcomes of fractionated proton beam therapy for benign or radiographic intracranial meningioma

AL Holtzman, GE Glassman, R Dagan, D Rao… - Journal of Neuro …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Benign intracranial meningioma is one of the most common primary brain
neoplasms. Proton therapy has been increasingly utilized for nonoperative management of …

The dirty and clean dose concept: towards creating proton therapy treatment plans with a photon‐like dose response

L Heuchel, C Hahn, J Ödén, E Traneus, J Wulff… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Applying tolerance doses for organs at risk (OAR) from photon therapy
introduces uncertainties in proton therapy when assuming a constant relative biological …

Potential Therapeutic Improvements in Prostate Cancer Treatment Using Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy with LETd Optimization and Disease-Specific RBE …

M Vieceli, J Park, WC Hsi, M Saki, NP Mendenhall… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary LET-optimized pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton treatment plans have
the potential to improve patient outcomes. Dose-escalated x-ray conformal therapy has …

Influence of beam pruning techniques on LET and RBE in proton arc therapy

H Henjum, J Tjelta, LF Fjæra, S Pilskog… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Proton arc therapy (PAT) is an emerging treatment modality that holds promise
to improve target volume coverage and reduce linear energy transfer (LET) in organs at risk …

Comparing biological effectiveness guided plan optimization strategies for cranial proton therapy: potential and challenges

C Hahn, L Heuchel, J Ödén, E Traneus, J Wulff… - Radiation …, 2022 - Springer
Background To introduce and compare multiple biological effectiveness guided (BG) proton
plan optimization strategies minimizing variable relative biological effectiveness (RBE) …

Biological optimization of proton therapy based on repeated PET imaging

AMN Lindstad - 2024 - bora.uib.no
Background and aim: Proton therapy has the potential to deliver dose in a more precise way
than traditional photon therapy, which allows for increased sparing of organs at risk (OAR) …

[PDF][PDF] Potential Therapeutic Improvements in Prostate Cancer Treatment Using Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy with LETd Optimization and Disease-Specific …

M Vieceli, J Park, WC Hsi, M Saki, NP Mendenhall… - 2024 - academia.edu
Purpose: To demonstrate the feasibility of improving prostate cancer patient outcomes with
PBS proton LETd optimization. Methods: SFO, IPT-SIB, and LET-optimized plans were …

[PDF][PDF] Towards reducing uncertainties in the applied effective dose for two specialized radiotherapy techniques: Total body irradiation and proton therapy

L Heuchel - eldorado.tu-dortmund.de
Radiotherapy is a high-precision treatment of malignant diseases. However, for some
specialized techniques, eg, total body irradiation (TBI) and proton therapy, considerable …