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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,225 Views
28 Pages

Channel Imbalance Calibration Based on the Zero Helix of Bragg-like Targets

  • Hanglan Guo,
  • Xingjie Zhao,
  • Xiuqing Liu and
  • Weidong Yu

28 March 2023

The calibration of channel imbalances is currently the main concern in polarimetric calibration (POLCAL) since the crosstalk of recent polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (Pol-SAR) systems is lower than −20 dB. The existing channel imbalance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,367 Views
13 Pages

Proton Bragg Peak FLASH Enables Organ Sparing and Ultra-High Dose-Rate Delivery: Proof of Principle in Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer

  • Michael Pennock,
  • Shouyi Wei,
  • Chingyun Cheng,
  • Haibo Lin and ,
  • Shaakir Hasan,
  • Arpit M. Chhabra,
  • J. Isabelle Choi,
  • Richard L. Bakst,
  • Rafi Kabarriti and
  • Robert H. Press
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

28 July 2023

Proton pencil-beam scanning (PBS) Bragg peak FLASH combines ultra-high dose rate delivery and organ-at-risk (OAR) sparing. This proof-of-principle study compared dosimetry and dose rate coverage between PBS Bragg peak FLASH and PBS transmission FLASH...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Progress in Proton Radiotherapy of Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,501 Views
14 Pages

Pencil Beam Scanning Bragg Peak FLASH Technique for Ultra-High Dose Rate Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Treatment

  • Grant Lattery,
  • Tyler Kaulfers,
  • Chingyun Cheng,
  • Xingyi Zhao and ,
  • Balaji Selvaraj,
  • Haibo Lin,
  • Charles B. Simone,
  • J. Isabelle Choi,
  • Jenghwa Chang and
  • Minglei Kang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

14 September 2023

Bragg peak FLASH-RT can deliver highly conformal treatment and potentially offer improved normal tissue protection for radiotherapy patients. This study focused on developing ultra-high dose rate (≥40 Gy × RBE/s) intensity-modulated proton t...

(This article belongs to the Collection Particle Therapy: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,633 Views
19 Pages

11 August 2023

Using a Doppler radar to measure river surface velocity is a safe and effective technique. However, the measurement would be severely affected by undesired targets that enter the illuminated area of radar. The issue is worsened when measuring the sur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,601 Views
14 Pages

Pyrolitic Graphite Mosaic Crystal Thickness and Mosaicity Optimization for an Extended Source Von Hamos X-ray Spectrometer

  • Alessandro Scordo,
  • Catalina Curceanu,
  • Marco Miliucci,
  • Florin Sirghi and
  • Johann Zmeskal

Bragg spectroscopy, one of the best established experimental techniques for high energy resolution X-ray measurements, has always been limited to the measurement of photons produced from well collimated (tens of microns) or point-like sources; recent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Precision X-Ray Measurements)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,692 Views
17 Pages

A Fast 3D Range-Modulator Delivery Approach: Validation of the FLUKA Model on a Varian ProBeam System Including a Robustness Analysis

  • Yuri Simeonov,
  • Ulrich Weber,
  • Miriam Krieger,
  • Christoph Schuy and ,
  • Michael Folkerts,
  • Gerard Paquet,
  • Pierre Lansonneur,
  • Petar Penchev and
  • Klemens Zink
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

16 October 2024

A 3D range-modulator (RM), optimized for a single energy and a specific target shape, is a promising and viable solution for the ultra-fast dose delivery in particle therapy. The aim of this work was to investigate the impact of potential beam and mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Proton Pencil Beam Scanning Therapy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,653 Views
26 Pages

Polyacrylic Acid-Coated LaB6 Nanoparticles as Efficient Sensitizers for Binary Proton Therapy

  • Mariya S. Ryabtseva,
  • Marina V. Filimonova,
  • Alexander S. Filimonov,
  • Olga V. Soldatova and ,
  • Anna A. Shitova,
  • Vitaly A. Rybachuk,
  • Irina K. Volkova,
  • Kirill A. Nikolaev,
  • Alexander O. Kosachenko and
  • Irina N. Zavestovskaya
  • + 17 authors+ 12 authors

Proton beam therapy (PBT) is a rapidly advancing modality of hadron therapy. The primary advantage of proton therapy lies in a unique depth-dose distribution characterized by the Bragg peak, which enables a highly targeted irradiation of the area lim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Radiopharmaceuticals for Disease Diagnoses and Therapy)