A horizontal CT system dedicated to heavy-ion beam treatment

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-237

  Kamada, Tadashi ^a   Tsujii, Hirohiko ^a   Mizoe, Jun Etsu ^a   Matsuoka, Yoshisuke ^a   Tsuji, Hiroshi ^a   Osaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Minohara, Shinichi ^a   Miyahara, Nobuyuki ^a   Endo, Masahiro ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a  

^a Res Ctr of Charged Particle Ther   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D planning; Heavy ion therapy; Horizontal CT; Positioning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POSTURE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032891755     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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