Roadmap: proton therapy physics and biology

Paganetti, Harald; Beltran, Chris; Both, Stefan; Dong, Lei; Flanz, J.; M. Furutani, Keith; Grassberger, Clemens; R. Grosshans, David; Knopf, Antje; A. Langendijk, Johannes; Nyström, Håkan; Parodi, Katia; W. Raaymakers, Bas; Richter, Christian; O. Sawakuchi, Gabriel; Schippers, Marco; F. Shaitelman, Simona; Teo, B; Unkelbach, Jan; Wohlfahrt, Patrick; Lomax, Antony

doi:10.1088/1361-6560/abcd16

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Roadmap: proton therapy physics and biology

Published in Physics in Medicine and Biology • Nov 23, 2020

Authors:

Harald Paganetti

Chris Beltran

Stefan Both

Abstract

The treatment of cancer with proton radiation therapy was first suggested in 1946 followed by the first treatments in the 1950s. As of 2020, almost 200 000 patients have been treated with proton beams worldwide and the number of operating proton therapy (PT) facilities will soon reach one hundred. P...

Subject

Proton therapy

Medical physics

Physics

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