Commissioning of a conformal irradiation system for heavy-ion radiotherapy using a layer-stacking method

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2989-2997

  Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a   Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a   Minohara, Shinichi ^a   Komori, Masataka ^a   Torikoshi, Masami ^a   Asakura, Hiroshi ^b   Ikeda, Noritoshi ^b   Uno, Takayuki ^b   Takei, Yuka ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Inage ku   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Dynamic beam delivery; Heavy ion radiotherapy; Layer stacking method

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ION BEAMS; IRRADIATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; HEAVY ION MEDICAL ACCELERATOR IN CHIBA; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; IRRADIATION METHODS; IRRADIATION SYSTEM; LAYER STACKING; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS;

HEAVY IONS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FILTER; HEAVY ION RADIATION; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MAGNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SAFETY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33746607263     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2219771     Document Type: Article

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