Validation of a Cable-Free and User-Friendly thermoAcoustic Range Verifier for a 2 Gy Proton Field Delivered to the Liver of an Anthropomorphic Phantom.
PURPOSE Detection and offline correction of proton range errors due to incorrect Hounsfield Unit-to-stopping power conversion with minimal (5-10 minute) extension of the patient-facing clinical workflow using a cable-free thermoAcoustic Range Verifier (tARV). MATERIALS The accelerator (Mevion Hyperscan) delivered at...