Target motion tracking with a scanned particle beam

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4768-4771

  Bert, Christoph ^a   Saito, Nami ^a   Schmidt, Alexander ^a   Chaudhri, Naved ^a   Schardt, Dieter ^a   Rietzel, Eike ^a,b  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D; Organ motion; Particle therapy; Tracking

Indexed keywords

MOTION COMPENSATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TARGET TRACKING;

COMPENSATION PERFORMANCE; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FILM MEASUREMENT; MOTION TRACKING SYSTEM; ORGAN MOTION; PARTICLE THERAPY; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

MOTION TRACKING;

ARTICLE; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 36649034851     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2815934     Document Type: Article

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