The dosimetric effect of residual breath-hold motion in pencil beam scanned proton therapy - An experimental study.

CONCLUSIONS: The breath-hold technique is robust to residual intra-breath-hold motion for SFUD treatment plans, based on our experimental study. IMPT was less robust with larger detected dose deviations.
PMID: 31005207 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - April 23, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Gorgisyan J, Lomax AJ, Rosenschold PMA, Persson GF, Krieger M, Colvill E, Scherman J, Gagnon-Moisan F, Egloff M, Fattori G, Engelholm SA, Weber DC, Perrin R Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research