Comparison between the lateral penumbra of a collimated double-scattered beam and uncollimated scanning beam in proton radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1729-1750

  Safai, Sairos ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a   Engelsman, Martijn ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROTONS; SCATTERING;

DIVERGENT BEAMS; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER;

EID: 41049094248     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/6/016     Document Type: Article

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