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TL;DR: Preliminary results have shown that Lynx is suitable to be used for commissioning and QA checks for proton and carbon ion scanning beams; the cross-check with EBT3 films showed a good agreement between the two detectors, for both single spot and scanned field measurements.

TL;DR: Results of measurements performed on different phantoms showed that the combination of gating and layered repainting is suitable to treat moving targets using scanning ion beams.

TL;DR: Particle radiotherapy is an effective treatment for skull base chordoma with acceptable late toxicity and Gross Tumor Volume, optic pathways and/or brainstem compression and dose coverage are independent prognostic factors of local failure risk.

TL;DR: The authors' adapted scanning proton beamline satisfied the requirements for intraocular tumor treatment and was adapted to treat also ocular diseases, with results comparable to those reported for most existing eye-dedicated facilities.

TL;DR: CF/PEEK spinal fixation devices resulted dosimetrically more suitable than commonly-used Ti implants for post-operative PT, leading to a lower degree of dose degradation in case of contouring and/or set-up uncertainties.