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A technology for the calculation and manufacture of devices for shaping a proton beam in radiotherapy

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Abstract

A therapeutic proton beam for an actual irradiation procedure is shaped using customized collimator leaves made out of Cerrobend, while to make the proton-beam depth-dose distribution conformal to the target volume, so-called boluses (compensators) with sophisticated shapes are calculated and then fabricated to compensate for the heterogeneities of a patient’s tissues and organs in the beam path. This article describes the main stages of testing a technology for manufacturing bolus from industrial wax which was developed at the Medico-Technical Complex (MTC) at the Dzelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (DLNP JINR), by comparing the spatial dose distributions obtained under a computer simulation of proton irradiation and the actually measured ones under the experiment.

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  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

    A. V. Agapov, D. Endzheichak, E. I. Luchin, G. V. Mitsyn, A. G. Molokanov & K. N. Shipulin

  2. Department of Medical Physics, Wielkopolskie Oncology Center, Poznan, Poland

    D. Endzheichak

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Agapov, D. Endzheichak, E.I. Luchin, G.V. Mitsyn, A.G. Molokanov, K.N. Shipulin, 2012, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2012, No. 5(175), pp. 924–936.

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Agapov, A.V., Endzheichak, D., Luchin, E.I. et al. A technology for the calculation and manufacture of devices for shaping a proton beam in radiotherapy. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 9, 571–577 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477112060027

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