SATIF-12

Session

Session 4. Medical Accelerators, Convener: Vladimir Mares

29 Apr 2014, 15:25

Curia II (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Contribution list Timetable

13. Neutron Therapy in the 21st Century

Thomas Kroc (FNAL)

29/04/2014, 15:25

The question of whether or not neutron therapy works has been answered. It is a qualified yes, as is the case with all of radiation therapy. But, neutron therapy has not kept pace with the rest of radiation therapy in terms of beam delivery techniques. Modern photon and proton based external beam radiotherapy routinely implements image-guidance, beam intensity-modulation and 3-dimensional...

16. Accelerators and Advanced Beam Technologies for a National Center for Particle Beam Radiation Therapy Research

Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)

29/04/2014, 15:50

As discussed in the DOE report “Accelerators for America’s Future,” most of the critical R&D in particle-beam therapy can only be conducted at a dedicated accelerator-based medical research facility capable of supplying the full range of ion beams from protons to carbon, oxygen or even neon. Such a facility not only requires beam energies and intensities useful for therapy and imaging but...

31. Prospects of Clinical Boron/Gadoliunium Neutron Capture Therapy at Fermilab

James Welsh (NIU)

29/04/2014, 16:15

The Neutron Therapy Facility (NTF) at Fermilab began treating human patients with fast neutrons in 1976. Fast neutron radiotherapy has continued at the NTF up until 2013 and still is performed at another site in the USA. Another clinical application of neutrons is to combine neutron therapy with a tumor-localizing drug carrying a neutron capture agent such as boron or gadolinium. This is known...

72. Measurement of stray neutron radiation within a proton therapy facility

Vladimir Mares (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Radiation Protection, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany)

29/04/2014, 16:40

Proton therapy is an advanced radiation treatment that destroys cancer cells with high accuracy. Proton treatment beams can be fine-tuned to deposit most of their energy at a specific depth within the patient, keeping irradiation of adjacent organs and healthy tissue to a minimum. However, proton interactions with materials in the beam line and with patient’s tissue create secondary neutrons...

43. Future Plan of a Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy and Research Facility in Dallas, Texas

Arnold Pompos (UTSouthwestern Medical Center)

29/04/2014, 17:05

A heavy ion therapy and research facility is being conceptually designed by the UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) in Dallas, TX, USA. It will be the phase three addition to a total of three phase plan that consists of a proton therapy center (phase 1) and a large conventional (photon) center (phase 2). This unified complex of all currently available modalities for radiation therapy systems...