Field-size dependence of doses of therapeutic carbon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 4016-4022

  Kusano, Yohsuke ^a,b   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^c   Yonai, Shunsuke ^c   Komori, Masataka ^c   Ikeda, Noritoshi ^b   Tachikawa, Yuji ^b   Ito, Atsushi ^a   Uchida, Hirohisa ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Inage ku   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Field size dependence; Heavy ion dosimetry; Heavy ion radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HEAVY IONS;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FIELD SIZE; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; IRRADIATION SYSTEM; LARGE-ANGLE SCATTERING; SEMI-EMPIRICAL APPROACH; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ION THERAPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 34748902214     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2779126     Document Type: Article

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