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Reassessment of the Necessity of the Proton Gantry: Analysis of Beam Orientations From 4332 Treatments at the Massachusetts General Hospital Proton Center Over the Past 10 Years by Yan, Susu, PhD, Lu, Hsiao-Ming, PhD, Flanz, Jay, PhD, Adams, Judith, CMD, Trofimov, Alexei, PhD, Bortfeld, Thomas, PhD

“…Purpose To retrospectively analyze the beam approaches used in gantry-based proton treatments, and to reassess the practical advantages of the gantry, compared…”
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Assessment of out-of-field absorbed dose and equivalent dose in proton fields by Clasie, Ben, Wroe, Andrew, Kooy, Hanne, Depauw, Nicolas, Flanz, Jay, Paganetti, Harald, Rosenfeld, Anatoly

“…Purpose: In proton therapy, as in other forms of radiation therapy, scattered and secondary particles produce undesired dose outside the target volume that may…”
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Out-of-Field Dose Equivalents Delivered by Passively Scattered Therapeutic Proton Beams for Clinically Relevant Field Configurations by Wroe, Andrew, Ph.D, Clasie, Ben, Ph.D, Kooy, Hanne, Ph.D, Flanz, Jay, Ph.D, Schulte, Reinhard, M.D, Rosenfeld, Anatoly, Ph.D

“…Purpose Microdosimetric measurements were performed at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, to assess the dose equivalent external to passively…”
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A respiratory-gated treatment system for proton therapy by Lu, Hsiao-Ming, Brett, Robert, Sharp, Gregory, Safai, Soiros, Jiang, Steve, Flanz, Jay, Kooy, Hanne

“…Proton therapy offers the potential for excellent dose conformity and reduction in integral dose. The superior dose distribution is, however, much more…”
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Charged particle beams to cure cancer: Strengths and challenges by Durante, Marco, Flanz, Jay

“…Charged particle therapy is the most advanced radiotherapy method in oncology. The favorable depth-dose distribution and the biological properties of charged…”
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Technical note: Does the greater power of pencil beam scanning reduce the need for a proton gantry? A study of head‐and‐neck and brain tumors by Yan, Susu, Depauw, Nicolas, Adams, Judith, Gorissen, Bram L., Shih, Helen A., Flanz, Jay, Bortfeld, Thomas, Lu, Hsiao‐Ming

“…Purpose Proton therapy systems without a gantry can be more compact and less expensive in terms of capital cost and therefore more available to a larger…”
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Investigation of real tissue water equivalent path lengths using an efficient dose extinction method by Zhang, Rongxiao, Baer, Esther, Jee, Kyung-Wook, Sharp, Gregory C, Flanz, Jay, Lu, Hsiao-Ming

“…For proton therapy, an accurate conversion of CT HU to relative stopping power (RSP) is essential. Validation of the conversion based on real tissue samples is…”
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Future (of) Synchrotrons for Particle Therapy by Flanz, Jay

“…CERN Yellow Report CERN-2017-004-SP pp. 293-307 The field of particle therapy is quickly growing and yet it's more widespread adoption is limited by size, cost…”
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Assessment of out-of-field absorbed dose and equivalent dosein proton fields by Clasie, Ben, Wroe, Andrew, Kooy, Hanne, Depauw, Nicolas, Flanz, Jay, Paganetti, Harald, Rosenfeld, Anatoly

“…Purpose: In proton therapy, as in other forms of radiation therapy, scattered and secondary particles produce undesired dose outside the target volume that may…”
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Sensitivities in the production of spread-out Bragg peak dose distributions by passive scattering with beam current modulation by Lu, Hsiao-Ming, Brett, Robert, Engelsman, Martijn, Slopsema, Roelf, Kooy, Hanne, Flanz, Jay

“…A spread-out Bragg peak (SOBP) is used in proton beam therapy to create a longitudinal conformality of the required dose to the target. In order to create this…”
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A soft robotic device for patient immobilization in sitting and reclined positions for a compact proton therapy system by Buchner, Thomas, Yan, Susu, Li, Shuguang, Flanz, Jay, Hueso-Gonzalez, Fernando, Kielty, Edward, Bortfeld, Thomas, Rus, Daniela

“…Proton therapy has a substantial physical advantage over conventional cancer radiation treatment with X-rays. Proton therapy reduces the radiation dose to…”
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Does the greater power of pencil beam scanning reduce the need for a proton gantry? A study of head-and-neck and brain tumors by Yan, Susu, Depauw, Nicolas, Adams, Judith, Gorissen, Bram L, Shih, Helen A, Flanz, Jay, Bortfeld, Thomas, Lu, Hsiao-Ming

“…Medical Physics, 49(2), 813-824, 2022 Proton therapy systems without a gantry can be more compact and less expensive in terms of capital cost, and therefore…”
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Critical feature analysis of a radiotherapy machine by Rae, Andrew, Jackson, Daniel, Ramanan, Prasad, Flanz, Jay, Leyman, Didier

“…The software implementation of the emergency shutdown feature in a major radiotherapy system was analyzed, using a directed form of code review based on module…”
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OUT-OF-FIELD DOSE EQUIVALENTS DELIVERED BY PASSIVELY SCATTERED THERAPEUTIC PROTON BEAMS FOR CLINICALLY RELEVANT FIELD CONFIGURATIONS by Wroe, Andrew, Clasie, Ben, Kooy, Hanne, Flanz, Jay, Schulte, Reinhard, Rosenfeld, Anatoly

“…Dose equivalent values ranged from 8.8-0.3 mSv/Gy (2.5-60 cm lateral displacement) for a typical prostate cancer field, 10.8-0.58 mSv/Gy (2.5-40 cm lateral…”
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DETERMINATION OF THE DOSE EQUIVALENT NEAR PROTON PENCIL BEAMS by Clasie, Ben, Wroe, Andrew, Kooy, Hanne, Paganetti, Harald, Flanz, Jay, Rosenfeld, Anatoly

“…Information from the spectra of energy deposition events allows one to determine the average quality factor using established microdosimetric methods and the…”
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