Design and construction of a ripple filter for a smoothed depth dose distribution in conformal particle therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2765-2775

  Weber, Uli ^a   Kraft, Gerhard ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; FILTER; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0032732178     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/11/306     Document Type: Article

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