Current Status of the Particle Beam Therapy in Korea - MPBRG Symposium, 2016.06.10

1. - Current Status of the Particle Beam Therapy in Korea -
Hope, Starts Here – Samsung PTC
의료입자방사선연구회 제1회 심포지엄
The Particle Beam Therapy and Research in Korea, A Step to the Future
2016.06.10

2. Introduction
Samsung Proton Therapy Center
Treatment Nozzles
Operation and Statistics
Summary
Contents

3. “These properties make it possible to irradiate intensely a strictly
localized region within the body, with but little skin dose.”
Introduction

4. Samsung Proton Therapy Center

6. The 1st

9. • SHI AVF (Azimuthally Varying Field) Cyclotron
• Energy: 70 MeV - 230 MeV
• Two isocentric Gantries
• IGRT using CBCT, CT-Sim and MRI imaging modalities
Samsung PTC - Space Layout

10. • Multi-leaf Collimator
• Maximum Field 25x25 cm2
• Passive Scattering or Line Scanning
• Patient collimator downstream of compensator
G1 Multi-Purpose Nozzle

11. • Extended Helium Chamber
• Maximum Field 30x40 cm2
• Scanning speed and Dose rate
• Line Scanning + Aperture in RayStation 6
• Scanning in y-direction in near future
G2 Dedicated Scanning Nozzle

12. • Wobbling Magnets + Scatterer
• Ridge Filter
Wobbling

13. Line Scanning
• Two Orthogonal Scanning Magnets
• Scan Patterns loaded on SCU

14. • RayStation + MOSAIQ
• Remote access using Citrix server
RTP and OIS

15. • TOPAS user since alpha version
• Contributions (MLC, Ridge filters, etc.)
• Modelled the full geometry of the Samsung PTC nozzles
Monte Carlo Simulation

18. 1. Physics
Rehearsal
2. Clinical
Rehearsal
3. Total
Rehearsal
4. Treatment
Rehearsal

19. • Treatment schedule filled in step by step
Treatment

20. 1st Patient in G2 Line Scanning

21. Statistics
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22. Statistics
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24. 2016.05.03

26. Timeline

27. 1. The 1st private-hospital based PTC in Korea
2. Two Gantries
3. Operation in 3 years
4. Step by step launch
5. Up and Running
Summary
Another step to the future.
Hope, starts here.

28. Thank you

29. • K. Chung et. al., “The first private-hospital based
proton therapy center in Korea; status of the Proton
Therapy Center at Samsung Medical Center”, Radiat
Oncol J. 2015 Dec; 33(4); 337-43.
• K. Chung et. al., “The Proton Therapy Nozzles at
Samsung Medical Center: A Monte Carlo Simulation
Study using TOPAS, Journal of the Korean Physical
Society, Vol. 67, No. 1, July 2015, pp. 170-174.
References