Particle Therapy 2017

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David Meer and Grischa Klimpki, PSI

Improving delivery time for PBS…

Line (continuous) scanning

c.f. ‘Step-and-

shoot’

c.f. ‘Sliding-

window’

For liver tumours, average reduction in treatment time

from ~30s to ~17s per field – nearly a factor 2.