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Alignment And Range Verification In Proton Therapy Using Proton Radiography And Proton Ct, Joseph Piet
Alignment And Range Verification In Proton Therapy Using Proton Radiography And Proton Ct, Joseph Piet
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Protons are used in radiation therapy to lower doses to healthy tissues by utilizing their Bragg peak. Protons can be used both in imaging and treatment. One of the uses of protons in imaging we tested is its use to align patients using a single beam's eye proton radiograph (pRad). By using a beam's eye pRad, and comparing the water equivalent thickness (WET) to proton digitally reconstructed radiographs (pDRRs), we show that we can measure the best alignment on six axes, three translational and three rotational. This is done by defining a cost function, chi squared, which quantifies the misalignment …