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Particle therapy

Particle therapy

Dual-energy CT for proton therapy planning reaches the clinic

31 May 2019
Proton plans
The proton treatment plan based on the DirectSPR method (left) results in substantially reduced dose to healthy tissue compared with a plan based on conventional look-up tables (dose difference map, right). (Courtesy: OncoRay/Christian Hahn, Nils Peters)
Researchers at OncoRay in Dresden have introduced a technique for more accurate proton therapy plann

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