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Range Uncertainty in Proton Therapy: An End-to-End Study Using Various Animal Tissues

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Nov 2012

SU-E-T-301: A Novel Daily QA Device for Proton Therapy

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Jun 2012

Purpose: We describe the design and use of a daily QA device for proton therapy. The device is designed for therapists to check the readiness of the IBA Proton Therapy System (IBA, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) during morning QA. The checks include connectivity, positioning, mechanical, imaging and dosimetric parameters of the proton therapy system. M...

SU-E-T-202: Comprehensive Quality Assurance Procedures for Uniform Scanning Proton Therapy Machines

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Jun 2012

Purpose: Quality assurance (QA) is essential in safe and accurate delivery of radiation therapy. However, QA in proton therapy is challenging due to complicated and often facility-specific beam delivery systems and limited beam time for QA. The purpose of this study is to develop an efficient and comprehensive QA procedure for a multi-room proton t...

MO-A-213AB-03: Commissioning of a Clinical Chair for Patients Treated in the Seated Position Using an Inclined Beam Line Treatment Room

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Jun 2012

Purposes: A chair, coupled to a robotic patient positioning system (PPS) was manufactured to treat an intracranial tumor in a proton incline beam-line system. Treating patients in the seated position as accurately and efficiently as a treatment table requires the essential functions of isocentric rotation and a weight-sagging-correction algorithm f...

SU-E-J-76: Clinical Use of a Real-Time Surface Image-Guided Positioning and Tracking System in Proton Therapy

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Jun 2012

Topic of interest: Clinical applications of AlignRT 3-cameras real-time surface image-guided positioning system (IGPS) for positioning patients to reduce the number of X-ray images and tracking intra-fractional movements in proton therapy.Purposes: To position patients and track the intra-fractional movements, the AlignRT system was implemented in...

SU-E-T-722: Investigation of Range and Dosimetric Calculation Uncertainty for a Proton Treatment Planning System Using an Animal Tissue Phantom

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Jun 2011

Purpose: Accurate determination of proton dose and penetration range is critical in proton therapy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the range and dosimetric calculation accuracy for a commercial proton therapytreatment planning system (TPS). Methods: A lamb leg and solid water plates were used as phantoms in this study. Radiochromic fil...

SU-E-T-358: Dosimetric Effects of Beam Angle Arrangements in Lung Proton Therapy

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Jun 2011

Purpose: The Inclined Beam Line (IBL) is an innovative partial gantry design which provides two beam angles at 30 and 90 degrees with full flexibility of the patient positioning system of the gantry design. Compared to the full gantry design in proton therapy, the IBL is a simplified design allowing for less equipment maintenance, physics quality a...