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New Technologies, Marco Schippers
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1) Systems with a
cyclotron/synchrotron+ 2-4 gantries
(scanning) are
mature
and
optimal.
2) URGENTLY
needed improvements
: imaging, accuracy,
speed, flexibility, cost reduction
3) Most
new ideas
are interesting, but
too uncertain
to rely
upon or to make decisions
now
.
4)
It is not clear
whether new developments will provide
treatments as good as done now
5)
Cheap
particles:
- are they really doing better than X-rays ?
- may have disadvantages that could be dangerous
Conclusions