ArticleMedical physics2024
Development of a three-dimensional scintillation detector for pencil beam verification in proton therapy patient-specific quality assurance.
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- Evaluation of a merging-based approach for improving patient-specific quality assurance in proton and carbon-ion radiotherapy: a comparative study with conventional single-isocentre experience.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2026Article
- Development of a three-dimensional scintillation detector for pencil beam verification in proton therapy patient-specific quality assurance.Medical physics · 2024Article
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backgroundPencil Beam Scanning proton therapy has many advantages from a therapeutic point of view, but raises technical constraints in terms of treatment verification. The treatment relies on a large number of planned pencil beams (PB) (up to thousands), whose delivery is divided in several low-intensity pulses delivered a high frequency (1 kHz in this study). PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop a three-dimensional quality assurance system allowing to verify all the PBs' characteristics (position, energy, intensity in terms of delivered monitor unit-MU) of patient treatment plans on a pulse-by-pulse or a PB-by-PB basis.
methodsA system named SCICOPRO has been developed. It is based on a 10 × 10 × 10 cm
resultsThe performances of SCICOPRO were evaluated on a pulse-by-pulse basis. They showed a very good signal-to-noise ratio for all the pulse intensities (between 2 × 10
conclusionThe high acquisition rate and the very high sensitivity of the system developed in this work allowed to record pulses of intensities as low as 2 × 10
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