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This study aims to develop a digital twin (DT) framework to enhance adaptive proton stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for prostate cancer. Prostate SBRT has emerged as a leading option for external beam radiotherapy due to its…
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Using inverse planning tools to create radiotherapy treatment plans is an iterative process, where clinical trade-offs are explored by changing the relative importance of different objectives and rerunning the optimizer until a desirable…
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Flash-algorithm track-reconstruction routines with speed factors 3000-4000 in excess those of traditional iterative routines are presented. The methods were successfully tested in the alignment of the Test Beam setup for the ATLAS Pixel…
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Radial basis function generated finite-difference (RBF-FD) methods have recently gained popularity due to their flexibility with irregular node distributions. However, the convergence theories in the literature, when applied to nonuniform…
We propose a method for polarising antiprotons in a storage ring by means of a polarised positron beam moving parallel to the antiprotons. If the relative velocity is adjusted to $v/c \approx 0.002$ the cross section for spin-flip is as…
Conventional cancer therapies include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and, more recently, immunotherapy. These modalities are often combined to improve the therapeutic index. The general concept of radiation therapy is to increase…