Tumour shapes and fully automated range compensation for heavy charged particle radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a   Asakura, Hiroshi ^b   Kohno, Ryosuke ^a   Takahashi, Osamu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Inage ku   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; TUMORS;

TREATMENT QUALITY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEAVY ION RADIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTICLE RADIATION; PELVIS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0942288052     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/2/N01     Document Type: Article

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