Carbon ion therapy for ocular melanoma: Planning orthogonal two-port treatment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 5341-5352

  Koyama Ito, Hiroko ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a   Minohara, Shinichi ^a   Tsuji, Hiroshi ^a   Tsujii, Hirohiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; IONS; IRRADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS;

CARBON ION THERAPY; CHOROIDAL MELANOMA; MONOPORT THERAPY; PASSIVE BEAMS; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS; THERAPEUTIC BEAMS;

SURGERY;

CARBON; HEAVY ION;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EYE TUMOR; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SYNCHROTRON;

CARBON; EYE NEOPLASMS; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SYNCHROTRONS;

EID: 36049002841     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/17/016     Document Type: Article

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