Particle Radiotherapy

Arabinda Kumar Rath, Ph.D. Chairman and M.D. Hemalata Hospitals and Research Center Nalco Square, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Narayan Sahoo, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Radiation Physics University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Particle Therapy in the Third Millennium Current Status and Future Outlook.- Development of Cyclotrons for Proton and Particle Therapy.- Development of C-ion Radiotherapy Technologies in Japan.- Physical rationale for protontherapy and elements to build a clinical center.- Radiation Dosimetry of Proton Beams.- Clinical pencil beam scanning: present and future practices.- Treatment planning for protons – An essay.- Radiation Therapy with Protons and Heavy Ions.- Robustness Quantification and Worst-Case Robust Optimization in Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy.- Modeling of Biological Effect of Charged Particles for C-Ion RT.- SFUD, IMPT and plan robustness.