Application of heavy-ion CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 4073-4081

  Shinoda, Hiroshi ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a,b   Kohno, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY IONS; MUSCLE; PATIENT TREATMENT; PLANNING; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HADRON THERAPY; HEAVY-ION CT (HICT); POLYBINARY-TISSUE-MODEL CT (PTCT); TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HADRON; HEAVY ION COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAVY ION RADIATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; X RAY;

ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; FOOT; HEAVY IONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746801620     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/16/013     Document Type: Article

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