Partitioning of discrete proton arcs into interlaced subplans can bring proton arc advances to existing proton facilities
Medical Physics2023Vol. 50(9), pp. 5723–5733
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Erik Engwall, Otte Marthin, Viktor Wase, Johan Sundström, Victor Mikhalev, Bas A. de Jong, Johannes A. Langendijk, Henrik Melbéus, Björn Andersson, Erik W. Korevaar, Stefan Both, Rasmus Bokrantz, Lars Glimelius, Albin Fredriksson
Abstract
Discrete proton arcs can be implemented at any proton facility with reasonable treatment times using a partitioning approach. The technique also makes the proton arc treatments more robust to changes in the patient anatomy.
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