Dose optimization of proton and heavy ion therapy using generalized sampled pattern matching

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2411-2420

  Yoda, Kiyoshi ^a   Saito, Yoshifuru ^b   Sakamoto, Hidenobu ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; HEAVY ION RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

EID: 0031458250     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/12/008     Document Type: Article

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