Design of a focused collimator for proton therapy spot scanning using Monte Carlo methods
Medical Physics2020Vol. 47(7), pp. 2725–2734
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Abstract
We have shown that focusing a collimator in spot scanning proton therapy reduces dose at the collimated edge compared to conventional, unfocused collimation devices and presented a simple, mechanical design for achieving focusing for a range of source-to-collimator distances.
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