ArticleInternational journal of particle therapy2025
First Clinical Implementation of Step-and-Shoot Proton Arc Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer Treatment.
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- Reducing the dose delivered to major intracranial blood vessels in brain radiotherapy using spot-scanning proton arc therapy.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2026Article
- Particle Arc Therapy in Cancer Radiotherapy: A Scoping Review of Feasibility and Dosimetric Evidence.Cancers · 2026Review
- Commissioning and clinical implementation of Monaco treatment planning system on a compact pencil beam scanning proton therapy system.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2026Article
- Treatment planning comparison of proton arc therapy and intensity modulated proton therapy for synchronous bilateral breast or chest wall and regional nodal irradiation.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2026Article
- Proton therapy achieves high-dose tumor control with organ preservation in complex metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma: a case report of a refractory patient with 16 pulmonary metastases.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Purpose: Dynamic Spot-scanning Proton Arc (SPArc Patients and Methods: An in-house spot and energy-layer sparsity optimization algorithm was integrated into a clinical treatment planning system. The algorithm prioritized higher MU-weighted energy layers and spots to ensure delivery efficiency and superior plan quality while meeting machine requirements (≥0.02MU/spot). A Dynamic SPArc simulator calculated delivery times, and a machine-learning-based synthetic CT(synCT) platform monitored dose robustness. In June 2024, a head-neck cancer patient with parotid gland malignancy was treated using SPArc Results: SPArc Conclusion: The SPArc
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