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 …

Based on its potent capacity to induce tumor cell death and to abrogate clonogenic survival,
radiotherapy is a key part of multimodal cancer treatment approaches. Numerous clinical …

The introduction of advanced techniques and technology in radiotherapy has greatly
improved our ability to deliver highly conformal tumor doses while minimizing the dose to …

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 …

Managing radiotherapy patients with implanted cardiac devices (implantable cardiac
pacemakers and implantable cardioverter‐defibrillators) has been a great practical and …

The number of incident cancers and long-term cancer survivors is expected to increase
substantially for at least a decade. Advanced technology radiotherapies, eg, using beams of …

Owing to the limited availability of data on the outcome of proton therapy, treatments are
generally optimized based on broadly available data on photon-based treatments. However …

Proton therapy is an expanding radiotherapy modality in the United States and worldwide.
With the number of proton therapy centers treating patients increasing, so does the need for …

Purpose This work aims to characterize a proton pencil beam scanning (PBS) and passive
double scattering (DS) systems as well as to measure parameters relevant to the relative …

Purpose To assess the impact of approximations in current analytical dose calculation
methods (ADCs) on tumor control probability (TCP) in proton therapy. Methods Dose …