Proton therapy has a substantial physical advantage over conventional cancer radiation treatment with X-rays. Proton therapy reduces the radiation dose to healthy tissues and therefore the toxicity ...

The setup and immobilization devices used in upright radiation therapy delivery are not significantly different from the existing solutions available.

The team assessed the immobilization accuracy, set-up time and comfort of the system for 16 patients undergoing radiotherapy for pelvic cancer (prostate, bladder, rectal, endometrial and ...

Optical imaging cannot penetrate clothing or thermoplastic immobilization devices, while CT and fluoroscopy expose patients to additional radiation. The mmWave device developed by the team can monitor ...

During treatment, patients were placed in their custom immobilization device, which was aligned with the use of the cone-beam CT, with verification of the alignment by means of fluoroscopy.

Abstract The introduction of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in the early 1990s created the possibility of generating dramatically improved dose distributions that could be tailored to ...