Annaïg Bertho, Ramon Ortiz, Mathieu Maurin, Marjorie Juchaux, Cristèle Gilbert, Julie Espenon, Gabriel Ramasamy, Annalisa Patriarca, Ludovic De Marzi, Frédéric Pouzoulet, Yolanda Prezado
PURPOSE: Proton Minibeam Radiotherapy (pMBRT) is an innovative radiation therapy approach that highly modulates the spatial dimension of the dose delivery using narrow, parallel, and submillimetric proton beamlets. pMBRT has proven its remarkable healthy tissue preservation in the brain and skin. This study assesses the potential advantages of pMBRT for thoracic irradiations compared to conventional radiotherapy in terms of normal tissue toxicity. The challenge here was the influence of respiratory motion on the typical peak and valley dose patterns of pMBRT and its potential biological impact...
April 13, 2024: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics