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Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic
Pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy provides highly conformal dose distributions that are increasingly leveraged for postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) to reduce cardiopulmonary exposure. However, implant-based reconstruction in the setting of PMRT...
Accurate patient setup in deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) proton therapy is critical due to steep dose gradients, limited range robustness, and the frequent use of tight clinical target volume (CTV) margins. This study introduces a CT-on-Rails (CTOR)–base...
Static apertures in pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy improve lateral dose falloff but are optimal only for a single energy layer and perform poorly for shallow targets where range shifters increase spot size. This work proposes dynamic individual spo...