[New patient positioning system for proton therapy combined with CT with a common treatment couch].
Exact reproducibility of patient positioning is a critical issue for proton therapy because of the sharp dose distribution. We constructed the first proton therapy system with a common couch for both CT and proton irradiation. In this paper, we report a brief overview of the instruments and the accuracy of mechanical positioning reproducibility.
Yokohama
Noriya
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The Wakasa-Wan Energy Research Center Medical Division, Fukui Medical University Hospital.
Kagiya
Go
G
Maruyama
Ichiro
I
Nishijima
Akihiko
A
Yamamoto
Kazutaka
K
D006801:Humans; D011187:Posture; D061766:Proton Therapy; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020266:Radiotherapy, Conformal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011522:Protons
D011522:Protons