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Ocular Proton Therapy Centers

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This chapter describes a review of proton therapy (PT) centers and the techniques used for the treatment of ocular lesions. The role of ion beam therapy (IBT) for eye treatments, principally choroidal melanomas, has become well established among the competing treatment modalities. More national centers now offer PT for these lesions, but not necessarily in a hospital environment. Significant improvements in eye treatment planning, patient positioning, and QA dosimetry have been realized, to the benefit of treatment efficiency and accuracy of dose delivery.

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Acknowledgements

I am indebted to my colleagues from the following proton eye therapy centers: Jorn Verwey (PSI, Villigen), Sabine Delacroix (CPO, Paris), Ewan Blackmore (TRIUMF, Vancouver), Jens Heufelder (HZB-Charité, Berlin), Jan Swakon (IFJ, Kraków), Joel Hérault (CAL, Nice), Pablo Cirrone (INFN-LNS, Catania), Inder Daftari (UCSF, San Francisco), and Hanne Kooy (MGH, Boston).

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Kacperek, A. (2012). Ocular Proton Therapy Centers. In: Linz, U. (eds) Ion Beam Therapy. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, vol 320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21414-1_10

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