The main advantages of proton therapy are the reduced total energy deposited in the patient
as compared to photon techniques and the finite range of the proton beam. The latter adds …

Charged particle therapy has been largely driven and influenced by nuclear physics. The
increase in energy deposition density along the ion path in the body allows reducing the …

Purpose: While Monte Carlo particle transport has proven useful in many areas (treatment
head design, dose calculation, shielding design, and imaging studies) and has been …

Protons are an interesting modality for radiotherapy because of their well defined range and
favourable depth dose characteristics. On the other hand, these same characteristics lead to …

Monte Carlo (MC) codes are increasingly spreading in the hadrontherapy community due to
their detailed description of radiation transport and interaction with matter. The suitability of a …

Proton therapy treatments are currently planned and delivered using the assumption that the
proton relative biological effectiveness (RBE) relative to photons is 1.1. This assumption …

Expanding on the highly successful first edition, this second edition of Proton Therapy
Physics has been completely restructured and updated throughout, and includes several …

Background The targeting accuracy of proton therapy (PT) for moving soft-tissue tumours is
expected to greatly improve by real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance. The …

Traditionally, dose in proton radiotherapy is prescribed as Gy (RBE) by scaling up the
physical dose by 10%. The relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of protons is considered …

Proton therapy requires accurate dose calculation for treatment planning to ensure the
conformal doses are precisely delivered to the targets. The conversion of CT numbers to …