Necessity of energy layer repainting for proton radiotherapy in breast cancer patients
while delivery time increased substantially with repainting. For free-breathing breast PBS with minimal respiratory motion, small target excursions, intra-fraction delivery averaging, and conventional fractionation rendered energy layer repainting unnecessary.
Authors
- Truls Andersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6260-9661)
- Jeffrey Free (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-2613)
- Bojan Štrbac (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1284-0563)
- John Maduro
- Johannes A. Langendijk
- Pietro Piscotta
Institutions
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- University of Groningen (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
- Published
- 2026-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phro.2026.100971
- Primary Topic
- Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00