Optimization for fast-scanning irradiation in particle therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3302-3311

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

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Moving target; Optimization; Particle therapy; Pencil beam scanning

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION; SCANNING;

BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IRRADIATION EXPERIMENTS; MOVING TARGETS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PARTICLE THERAPY; PENCIL BEAM; WEIGHTING MATRICES;

IRRADIATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST ELECTRON RADIATION; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; PARTICLE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 34547493638     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2754058     Document Type: Article

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