A pencil beam algorithm for proton dose calculations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1305-1330

  Hong, Linda ^a,b   Goitein, Michael ^a   Bucciolini, Marta ^c   Comiskey, Robert ^a   Gottschalk, Bernard ^d   Rosenthal, Skip ^a   Serago, Chris ^a   Urie, Marcia ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; CYCLOTRONS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0029902095     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/8/005     Document Type: Article

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