Design study of a raster scanning system for moving target irradiation in heavy-ion radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1085-1097

  Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Sato, Shinji ^a   Tomitani, Takehiro ^a   Minohara, Shinichi ^a   Noda, Koji ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Moving target; Particle therapy; Pencil beam scanning

Indexed keywords

HEAVY IONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

HEAVY ION MEDICAL ACCELERATOR IN CHIBA; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; IRRADIATION METHODS; MOVING TARGETS; PARTICLE THERAPY; PENCIL BEAM; SCANNING IRRADIATION; SCANNING STRATEGIES;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COLD; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DYNAMICS; HEAVY ION RADIATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; IRRADIATION; MAGNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETER; TARGET VARIABLE;

EID: 33847682874     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2558213     Document Type: Article

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