Treatment planning for heavy-ion radiotherapy: Physical beam model and dose optimization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3299-3317

  Kramer M ^a   Jakel O ^b   Haberer, T ^a   Kraft, G ^a   Schardt, D ^a   Weber, U ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY ION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEAVY ION RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0033773556     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/11/313     Document Type: Article

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