Sequential Alignment and Positioning Verification System for Functional Proton Radiosurgery

Llumu Loma Linda University Medical Center Engineering, 2000-01

Liaison(s): Dr. Reinhard Schulte, Michael Moyers
Advisor(s): Erik Spjut
Students(s): Paul Murata (TL), Joseph Scott, Jeffrey Wong, Amanda Malone, Ryan Jackson

Traditional neurosurgery procedures require invasive techniques to gain access to the area of interest. Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) proposes an alternative non-invasive technique that uses narrow high-energy protons to destroy a target in the patient’s brain. The LLUMC Clinic team is to provide a sequential alignment and position verification system that will ensure and maintain the proper position and orientation of the proton beam with respect to the target area in the patient’s brain.