Radiation therapy treatments are typically planned based on a single image set, assuming
that the patient's anatomy and its position relative to the delivery system remains constant …

Exploitation of the full potential offered by ion beams in clinical practice is still hampered by
several sources of treatment uncertainties, particularly related to the limitations of our ability …

This paper reviews the ecosystem of GATE, an open-source Monte Carlo toolkit for medical
physics. Based on the shoulders of Geant4, the principal modules (geometry, physics …

Abstract We propose the Reconstruction Toolkit (RTK, http://www. openrtk. org), an open-
source toolkit for fast cone-beam CT reconstruction, based on the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and …

The use of hadron beams, especially proton beams, in cancer radiotherapy has expanded
rapidly in the past two decades. To fully realize the advantages of hadron therapy over …

Proton radiography and tomography have long promised benefit for proton therapy. Their
first suggestion was in the early 1960s and the first published proton radiographs and CT …

We present an experimental verification of stopping-power-ratio (SPR) prediction from dual
energy CT (DECT) with potential use for dose planning in proton and ion therapy. The …

Proton computed tomography (pCT) has been proposed as an alternative to x-ray computed
tomography (CT) for acquiring relative to water stopping power (RSP) maps used for proton …

A typical proton CT (pCT) detector comprises a tracking system, used to measure the proton
position before and after the imaged object, and an energy/range detector to measure the …

Owing to the favorable physical and biological properties of swift ions in matter, their
application to radiation therapy for highly selective cancer treatment is rapidly spreading …