Clinical and Research Activities at the CATANA Facility of INFN-LNS: From the Conventional Hadrontherapy to the Laser-Driven Approach

Clinical and Research Activities at the CATANA Facility of INFN-LNS: From the Conventional Hadrontherapy to the Laser-Driven Approach

The CATANA proton therapy center was the first Italian clinical facility making use of energetic (62 MeV) proton beams for the radioactive treatment of solid tumors. Since the date of the first patient treatment in 2002, 294 patients have been successful treated whose majority was affected by choroi...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe A. P. Cirrone, Giacomo Cuttone, Luigi Raffaele, Vincenzo Salamone, Teresio Avitabile, Giuseppe Privitera, Corrado Spatola, Antonio G. Amico, Giuseppina Larosa, Renata Leanza, Daniele Margarone, Giuliana Milluzzo, Valeria Patti, Giada Petringa, Francesco Romano, Andrea Russo, Antonio Russo, Maria G. Sabini, Francesco Schillaci, Valentina Scuderi, Lucia M. Valastro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
proton therapy
dosimetry
clinical follow-up
Monte Carlo
laser-driven
ELIMED
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2017.00223/full

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