Susan B Klein
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Title: The particle therapy experience and recent developments
Biography
Biography: Susan B Klein
Abstract
Although particle therapy, particularly proton therapy is not a new technology having been initiated in 1952 at the University
of California at Berkeley cyclotron, it may be considered relatively new and certainly medical physicists are less familiar
with the clinical practice of particle therapy due to the scarcity of facilities worldwide. At last accounting, there were 67 facilities
in operation worldwide with another 49 under construction and a small fraction of the several thousands of linear accelerator
Xï€ray therapy facilities. As charged particles interact with matter in fundamentally different ways than neutral particles, the
planning and delivery of particle therapy requires a unique intuition based both on physics and on radiation biology. This
presentation will discuss the therapy, radiation machine design, radiation biology and clinical techniques relevant to particle
therapy.