4 papers
Mixed Ion Beams Enable Simultaneous Treatment and Real-Time Imaging in Carbon Ion Therapy
Lennart Volz, Ronja Hetzel, Maximilian Dick +19
Carbon ion therapy is one of the most advanced forms of radiotherapy, promising improved efficacy against resistant cancers. However, the high precision offered by the carbon ion B…
Dosimetric Study of Lung Modulation and Motion Effects in Carbon ion Therapy for Lung Cancer
Maria Chiara Martire, Lennart Volz, Marco Durante +1
Carbon-ion radiotherapy provides high dose conformity for lung cancer, but its benefit is limited by two sources of uncertainties: interplay between scanned beam delivery and tumor…
An AI dose engine for fast carbon ion treatment planning
Anastasiia Quarz, Angelica De Gregorio, Gaia Franciosini +7
Monte Carlo (MC) simulations provide gold-standard accuracy for carbon ion therapy dose calculations but are computationally intensive. Analytical pencil beam algorithms offer spee…
First image-guided treatment of a mouse tumor with radioactive ion beams
Daria Boscolo, Giulio Lovatti, Olga Sokol +16
Radioactive ion beams (RIB) are a key focus of current research in nuclear physics. Already long ago it was proposed that they could have applications in cancer therapy. In fact, w…