Special report: Workshop on 4D-treatment planning in actively scanned particle therapy—Recommendations, technical challenges, and future research directions

This article reports on a 4D-treatment planning workshop (4DTPW), held on 7–8 December 2009 at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland. The participants were all members of institutions actively involved in particle therapy delivery and research. The purpose of the 4DTPW was to dis...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Medical physics (Lancaster) 2010-09, Vol.37 (9), p.4608-4614
Main Authors: Knopf, Antje, Bert, Christoph, Heath, Emily, Nill, Simeon, Kraus, Kim, Richter, Daniel, Hug, Eugen, Pedroni, Eros, Safai, Sairos, Albertini, Francesca, Zenklusen, Silvan, Boye, Dirk, Söhn, Matthias, Soukup, Martin, Sobotta, Benjamin, Lomax, Antony
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
4D‐treatment planning
Anatomy
Cancer
Dose Fractionation
Dosimetry
Elementary Particles - therapeutic use
Health Planning Guidelines
Heavy ion beams
Heavy Ions - therapeutic use
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Medical imaging
motion
Movement
particle therapy
Phantoms, Imaging
Photons
Protons
Protons - therapeutic use
radiation therapy
Radiotherapy - methods
Radiotherapy - trends
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted - methods
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted - trends
Reproducibility of Results
Treatment planning
Uncertainty
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This article reports on a 4D-treatment planning workshop (4DTPW), held on 7–8 December 2009 at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland. The participants were all members of institutions actively involved in particle therapy delivery and research. The purpose of the 4DTPW was to discuss current approaches, challenges, and future research directions in 4D-treatment planning in the context of actively scanned particle radiotherapy. Key aspects were addressed in plenary sessions, in which leaders of the field summarized the state-of-the-art. Each plenary session was followed by an extensive discussion. As a result, this article presents a summary of recommendations for the treatment of mobile targets (intrafractional changes) with actively scanned particles and a list of requirements to elaborate and apply these guidelines clinically.
ISSN:0094-2405
2473-4209
DOI:10.1118/1.3475944