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Particle therapy

Particle therapy

Online MR imaging verifies proton beam range

09 Dec 2020 Tami Freeman
Range verification
MR images acquired using GE (top row) and IRGE (bottom row) sequences during proton irradiation, with expected proton ranges of (left to right) 4.2, 6.4, 8.6 and 12.2 cm at 9 nA. (Courtesy: S Schellhammer, HZDR/OncoRay)
Proton therapy holds the promise of delivering highly conformal dose distributions to a target tumou

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