Paulette Prins
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Paulette Prins is a leading medical physicist whose work centers on advancing stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) through precision delivery technology. Her primary research focus is the characterization and clinical implementation of novel collimation systems for robotic radiosurgery platforms. Prins made a landmark contribution by leading the pre-clinical evaluation of the InCise™ multileaf collimator (MLC)—the first commercial MLC designed for the CyberKnife robotic delivery system. Her work, published in 2016 (35 citations), systematically assessed beam properties, dosimetric characteristics, and performance metrics over a five-month test period, establishing the foundational commissioning data necessary for clinical adoption. This research demonstrated that the 41-leaf-pair, 2.5 mm-width MLC, paired with a flattening-filter-free linac, could deliver highly conformal treatments with enhanced efficiency. Her earlier conference proceedings (2015, 2 citations) provided initial insights into this transformative technology. Prins’s contributions have directly enabled more precise, faster SRS/SBRT treatments, improving patient outcomes for intracranial and extracranial tumors. Her meticulous approach to device validation exemplifies the rigorous translational research that bridges engineering innovation and clinical radiotherapy.
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