Target volume dose considerations in proton beam treatment planning for lung tumors

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3549-3557

  Engelsman, Martijn ^a   Kooy, Hanne M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PROTON BEAMS; TUMORS;

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; EVALUATION PARAMETERS; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RANGE-COMPENSATORS; SURVIVING FRACTIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; LUNG TUMOR; LUNG VOLUME; PHANTOM; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TARGET CELL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; BIOPHYSICS; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

PROTON;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION;

EID: 33645005637     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2126187     Document Type: Article

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