Development of an easy-to-handle range measurement tool using a plastic scintillator for proton beam therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5927-5936

  Fukushima, Yasuhiro ^a   Hamada, Minoru ^b   Nishio, Teiji ^c   Maruyama, Koichi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOSPHORS; PROTON IRRADIATION; TUMORS;

LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATORS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

PROTON BEAMS;

PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; SCINTILLATION;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PLASTICS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33846860629     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/22/014     Document Type: Article

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