CT calibration for two-dimensional scaling of proton pencil beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 861-874

  Szymanowski, Hanitra ^a   Oelfke, Uwe ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; STOICHIOMETRY; TISSUE;

PROTON PENCIL BEAMS;

PROTONS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; STOICHIOMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037425230     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/7/304     Document Type: Article

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