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Varian details collaboration rationale
May 22, 2012
Varian Medical Systems explains the motivation underlying its recent tie-up with Siemens Healthcare.
Advances in scintillation dosimetry
May 21, 2012
Plastic scintillation detectors are being lined up for in vivo dosimetry and radiotherapy quality assurance.
Particle therapy: ion beam options
May 18, 2012
Could beams of ion species other than protons and carbon ions prove valuable for particle therapy?
Surface imaging enhances patient alignment
May 17, 2012
Three-dimensional surface imaging proves valuable for reducing errors in daily alignment of radiotherapy patients.
Opinion
Calculation uncertainties undermine dose verification
May 8, 2012
Large uncertainties in calculating the production rate of positron emitters in proton beams undermine PET-based particle therapy verification, explains Frank Verhaegen.
CERN: catalysing collaboration for medical advances
Mar 26, 2012
The ICTR-PHE conference in Geneva saw clinicians and physicists come together to help transfer the benefits of basic scientific research to medicine.
Future prospects for proton therapy
Mar 5, 2012
Technology developments required to optimize tomorrow's proton therapy installations include "five highs and one low", said PSI's Marco Schippers.
Turkey bolsters isotope supplies
Feb 9, 2012
A new facility is about to open outside Ankara that is designed to end Turkey's dependence on importing expensive isotopes for medical use. Michael Banks takes an exclusive tour of the project.
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Five RayPilot papers presented at ESTRO Congress
May 17, 2012
Physics in Medicine & Biology
Experimental study of the water-to-air stopping power ratio of monoenergetic carbon ion beams for particle therapy
May 21, 2012
D Sánchez-Parcerisa, A Gemmel, O Jäkel, K Parodi and E Rietzel 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 3629
Prompt gamma imaging with a slit camera for real-time range control in proton therapy
May 14, 2012
J Smeets, F Roellinghoff, D Prieels, F Stichelbaut, A Benilov, P Busca, C Fiorini, R Peloso, M Basilavecchia, T Frizzi, J C Dehaes and A Dubus 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 3371
Monte Carlo study of the potential reduction in out-of-field dose using a patient-specific aperture in pencil beam scanning proton therapy
Apr 30, 2012
S J Dowdell, B Clasie, N Depauw, P Metcalfe, A B Rosenfeld, H M Kooy, J Flanz and H Paganetti 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 2829
Beam range estimation by measuring bremsstrahlung
Apr 23, 2012
Mitsutaka Yamaguchi, Kota Torikai, Naoki Kawachi, Hirofumi Shimada, Takahiro Satoh, Yuto Nagao, Shu Fujimaki, Motohide Kokubun, Shin Watanabe, Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuo Arakawa, Tomihiro Kamiya and Takashi Nakano 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 2843