Initial experience of using an active beam delivery technique at PSI

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 175, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1999, Pages 18-20

  Pedroni, Eros ^a   Böhringer, Terence ^b   Coray, Adolf ^b   Egger, Emmanuel ^b   Grossmann, Martin ^b   Lin, Shixiong ^b   Lomax, Antony ^b   Goitein, Gudrun ^b   Roser, Werner ^b   Schaffner, Barbara ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Beam scanning; Dynamic therapy; Inverse planning; Proton gantry; Proton therapy; Proton therapy facility; Spot scanning

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

BEAM THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0344183081     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03038879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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