Research Masterclass in Radiotherapy Physics 2017

LET Painting for hypoxic tumors

Planned target

SFUD

LET-Painting

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DOSE

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Courtesy of N. Bassler et al. (Aarhus)

F-MISO PET

LET

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Outlook: Helium to replace protons ?

He may replace p’s: - reduced penumbra - similar biology

He beams commissioned at HIT in Dec 2013

Oliver Jäkel

Medical Physics

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