Nigel Allinson
(U)
09/09/2014, 08:30
Applications in Life Sciences, Biology and Medicine
Invited Paper
Proton therapy as an alternative to conventional radiotherapy is rapidly gaining momentum. Forty-eight treatment centres are in operation worldwide, with a further 38 planned or under construction. The first large-scale hospital-based facility opened in 1990. Some 100,000 patients have been treated using protons – a small fraction of the total numbers who have received radiotherapy as part...
Dr
Jonathan Taylor
(University of Liverpool)
09/09/2014, 09:10
Applications in Life Sciences, Biology and Medicine
Oral Paper
For many years, silicon micro-strip detectors have been successfully used as tracking detectors for particle and nuclear physics experiments. A new application of this technology is to the field of particle therapy where radiotherapy is carried out by use of charged particles such as protons or carbon ions. Such a treatment has been shown to have advantages over standard x-ray radiotherapy and...
Dr
Oxana Actis
(Center for Proton Therapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland)
09/09/2014, 09:30
Applications in Life Sciences, Biology and Medicine
Oral Paper
**Introduction**
Field of particle therapy proved to be very effective for cancer treatment all over the world. At the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) Gantry 2 is a therapy delivery system which operates using proton beams of energies ranging from 70 MeV to 230 MeV [1]. Gantry 2 employs an active spot scanning technique which allow following the tumour shape by means of the fast energy...
Michela Esposito
(University of Lincoln and University of Surrey),
Michela Esposito
(University of Surrey)
09/09/2014, 09:50
Applications in Life Sciences, Biology and Medicine
Oral Paper
Proton therapy is gaining importance in the field of radiotherapy because of its potential of conforming the planned dose accurately at different depths defined and controlled by the proton energy, while sparing surrounding healthy tissue. The use of proton therapy for cancer treatment makes the need for developing new and more accurate imaging modalities for treatment planning, based on the...
Monica Scaringella
(University of Florence)
09/09/2014, 10:10
Applications in Life Sciences, Biology and Medicine
Oral Paper
Proton radiation therapy is one of the most precise techniques for conformal radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer. One of the aspects that limits this medical approach is the relatively low accuracy of the stopping power (SP) maps inside the tissue, which are required for treatment planning and patient positioning, that today are derived from X-ray CT scans by converting the relative...