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At PSI a new proton therapy facility has been assembled and commissioned. The major features of the facility are the spot scanning technique and the very compact gantry. The operation of the facility was started in 1997 and the feasibility of the spot scanning technique has been demonstrated in practice with patient treatments. In this report we discuss the usual initial difficulties encountered in the commissioning of a new technology, the very positive preliminary experience with the system and the optimistic expectations for the future. The long range goal of this project is to parallel the recent developments regarding inverse planning for photons with a similar advanced technology optimized for a proton beam.
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Pedroni, E., Böhringer, T., Coray, A. et al. Initial experience of using an active beam delivery technique at PSI. Strahlenther Onkol 175 (Suppl 2), 18–20 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03038879
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03038879