Patient positioning in the proton radiotherapy era

The main hindrance to the diffusion of proton therapy facilities is the high cost for gantry installations. An alternative technical option is provided by fixed-beam treatment rooms, where the patient is rotated and translated in space with a robotic arm solution to enable beam incidence from variou...

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Autores principales: Devicienti, Salvatore, Strigari, Lidia, D'Andrea, Marco, Benassi, Marcello, Dimiccoli, Vincenzo, Portaluri, Maurizio
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20465816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-9966-29-47
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author Devicienti, Salvatore
Strigari, Lidia
D'Andrea, Marco
Benassi, Marcello
Dimiccoli, Vincenzo
Portaluri, Maurizio
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Strigari, Lidia
D'Andrea, Marco
Benassi, Marcello
Dimiccoli, Vincenzo
Portaluri, Maurizio
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description The main hindrance to the diffusion of proton therapy facilities is the high cost for gantry installations. An alternative technical option is provided by fixed-beam treatment rooms, where the patient is rotated and translated in space with a robotic arm solution to enable beam incidence from various angles. The technological efforts based on robotic applications made up to now for patient positioning in proton beam facilities are described here, highlighting their limitations and perspectives.
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spelling pubmed-28811192010-06-05 Patient positioning in the proton radiotherapy era Devicienti, Salvatore Strigari, Lidia D'Andrea, Marco Benassi, Marcello Dimiccoli, Vincenzo Portaluri, Maurizio J Exp Clin Cancer Res Review The main hindrance to the diffusion of proton therapy facilities is the high cost for gantry installations. An alternative technical option is provided by fixed-beam treatment rooms, where the patient is rotated and translated in space with a robotic arm solution to enable beam incidence from various angles. The technological efforts based on robotic applications made up to now for patient positioning in proton beam facilities are described here, highlighting their limitations and perspectives. BioMed Central 2010-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2881119/ /pubmed/20465816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-9966-29-47 Text en Copyright ©2010 Devicienti et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Devicienti, Salvatore
Strigari, Lidia
D'Andrea, Marco
Benassi, Marcello
Dimiccoli, Vincenzo
Portaluri, Maurizio
Patient positioning in the proton radiotherapy era
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title_full Patient positioning in the proton radiotherapy era
title_fullStr Patient positioning in the proton radiotherapy era
title_full_unstemmed Patient positioning in the proton radiotherapy era
title_short Patient positioning in the proton radiotherapy era
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20465816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-9966-29-47
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