ESTRO PT 2018

Conclusion

• Particle therapy is an extremely precise method

• Biggest challenges are costs and organ motion

• Image guidance / motion mitigation are lacking behind X-ray technology

Particle RT has still has a great potential for development

Literature:

Proton and Charged Particle, T.F. Delaney and H.M. Kooy (eds.), Lippincott Raven (2007)

Principles and Practice of Proton Beam Therapy, I.J. Das and H. Paganetti (eds.), AAPM (2015)

Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy: Principles, Practices and Treatment Planning, H. Tsujii et al (eds.) Springer 2015

Oliver Jäkel

Medical Physics

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