The precision of proton range calculations in proton radiotherapy treatment planning: Experimental verification of the relation between CT-HU and proton stopping power

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1579-1592

  Schaffner, B ^a   Pedroni, E ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; STOICHIOMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CATTLE; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031807135     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/6/016     Document Type: Article

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