4D treatment planning for scanned ion beams

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Bert, Christoph ^a   Rietzel, Eike ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ION;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PILOT STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNCHROTRON; TIME;

CARBON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; SYNCHROTRONS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548301441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-2-24     Document Type: Article

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