Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) 92 95-101 2021年12月 [査読有り]
PURPOSE: Accurate calculation of the proton beam range inside a patient is an important topic in proton therapy. In recent times, a computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction algorithm was developed for treatment planning to reduce the impact o...
Yuta Omi   Keisuke Yasui   Akira Shimomura   Rie Muramatsu   Hiromitsu Iwata   Hiroyuki Ogino   Akari Furukawa   Naoki Hayashi   
Radiological physics and technology 14(3) 328-335 2021年9月 [査読有り]
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of quality assurance (QA)-related setup errors in passive proton therapy for prostate cancer with and without a hydrogel spacer. We used 20 typical computed tomography (CT) images of prostate ca...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics 22(8) 265-272 2021年8月 [査読有り]
A radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeter (RGD) is used for a postal audit of a photon beam because of its various excellent characteristics. However, it has not been used for scanning proton beams because its response characteristics have not been ...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) 81 147-154 2021年1月 [査読有り]
A radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeter (RGD) is widely used in postal audit system for photon beams in Japan. However, proton dosimetry in RGDs is scarcely used owing to a lack of clarity in their response to beam quality. In this study, we inves...