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1. Dosimetric and clinical experience in eye proton treatment at INFN-LNS.

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Cirrone, G. A. P., Cuttone, G., Di Rosa, F., Lojacono, P., Mongelli, V., Lo Nigro, S., Ott, J., Patti, I. V., Pittera, S., Privitera, G., Raffaele, L., Reibaldi, A., Russo, G., Salamone, V., Sabini, M. G., Spatola, C., and Valastro, L. M.

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*PROTONS, *PARTICLES (Nuclear physics), *MEDICAL dosimetry, *NEUROENDOCRINE tumors, *EYE diseases, *PATIENTS
Abstract

After six years of activity 155 patients have been treated inside the CATANA (Centro di AdroTerapia ed Applicazioni Nucleari Avanzate) facility. CATANA is the first and unique proton therapy facility in which the 62 MeV proton beams, accelerated by a Superconducting Cyclotron, are used for the radio-therapeutic treatments of choroidal and iris melanomas. Inside CATANA new absolute and relative dosimetric techniques have been developed in order to achieve the best results in terms of treatment precision and dose release accuracy. The follow-up results for 42 patients demonstrated the efficacy of high energy protons in the radiotherapeutic field and encouraged us in our activity in the battle against cancer [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009
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2. A 62-MeV Proton Beam for the Treatment of Ocular Melanoma at Laboratori Nazionali del Sud-INFN.

Author

Cirrone, G. A. P., Cuttone, G., Lojacono, P. A., Lo Nigro, S., Mongelli, V., Patti, I. V., Priviteria, G., Raffaele, L., Rifuggiato, D., Sabini, M. C., Salamone, V., Spatola, C., and Valastro, L. M.

Subjects
*PROTON beams, *MELANOMA, *EYE diseases, *PARTICLE beams
Abstract

At the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS) in Catania, Italy, the first Italian protontherapy facility, named Centro di AdroTerapia e Applicazioni Nucleari Avanzate (CATANA) has been built in collaboration with the University of Catania. It is based on the use of the 62-MeV proton beam delivered by the K = 800 Superconducting Cyclotron installed and working at INFN-LNS since 1995. The facility is mainly devoted to the treatment of ocular diseases like uveal melanoma. A beam treatment line in air has been assembled together with a dedicated positioning patient system. The facility has been in operation since the beginning of 2002 and 66 patients have been successfully treated up to now. The main features of CATANA together with the clinical and dosimetric features will be extensively described; particularly, the proton beam line, that has been entirely built at LNS, with all its elements, the experimental transversal and depth dose distributions of the 62-MeV proton beam obtained for a final collimator of 25-mm diameter and the experimental depth dose distributions of a modulated proton beam obtained for the same final collimator. Finally, the clinical results over 1 yr of treatments, describing the features of the treated diseases will be reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004
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