Particle therapy for noncancer diseases
- 8 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 39 (4), 1716-1727
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3691903
Abstract
Radiation therapy using high-energy charged particles is generally acknowledged as a powerful new technique in cancer treatment. However, particle therapy in oncology is still controversial, specifically because it is unclear whether the putative clinical advantages justify the high additional costs. However, particle therapy can find important applications in the management of noncancer diseases, especially in radiosurgery. Extension to other diseases and targets (both cranial and extracranial) may widen the applications of the technique and decrease the cost/benefit ratio of the accelerator facilities. Future challenges in this field include the use of different particles and energies, motion management in particle body radiotherapy and extension to new targets currently treated by catheter ablation (atrial fibrillation and renal denervation) or stereotactic radiation therapy (trigeminal neuralgia, epilepsy, and macular degeneration). Particle body radiosurgery could be a future key application of accelerator-based particle therapy facilities in 10 years from today. (C) 2012 American Association of Physicists in Medicine. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.3691903]Keywords
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