ArticleCancers2023
Rotating Gantries Provide Individualized Beam Arrangements for Charged Particle Therapy.
Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Simulation and optimization of treatment schedule for multi-gantry heavy ion therapy.Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2026Article
- Commissioning of a Monte Carlo-based scanning proton beam for breast cancer: Incorporating LETd calculations and variable RBE models.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2026Article
- Towards ultra-fast treatments: large energy acceptance beam delivery systems and opportunities for proton beam therapy.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Assessment of upright immobilization methods for abdominal and head-and-neck cancer treatments in a carbon ion radiotherapy setting.Technical innovations & patient support in radiation oncology · 2025Article
- Optimizing Gantry Breakpoint Angles in Proton Therapy: Enhancing Efficiency and Patient Experience.International journal of particle therapy · 2024Article
- Treatment Planning Comparison of Gantry-based and Fixed Beams for the Treatment of Liver Tumors With Carbon Ion Therapy.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study evaluates beam angles used to generate highly individualized proton therapy treatment plans for patients eligible for carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT). METHODS AND MATERIALS: We retrospectively evaluated patients treated with pencil beam scanning intensity modulated proton therapy from 2015 to 2020 who had indications for CIRT. Patients were treated with a 190° rotating gantry with a robotic patient positioning system. Treatment plans were individualized to provide maximal prescription dose delivery to the tumor target volume while sparing organs at risk. The utilized beam angles were grouped, and anatomic sites with at least 10 different beam angles were sorted into histograms.
resultsA total of 467 patients with 484 plans and 1196 unique beam angles were evaluated and characterized by anatomic treatment site and the number of beam angles utilized. The most common beam angles used were 0° and 180°. A wide range of beam angles were used in treating almost all anatomic sites. Only esophageal cancers had a predominantly unimodal grouping of beam angles. Pancreas cancers showed a modest grouping of beam angles.
conclusionsThe wide distribution of beam angles used to treat CIRT-eligible patients suggests that a rotating gantry is optimal to provide highly individualized beam arrangements.
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