Incorporating partial shining effects in proton pencil-beam dose calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 605-616

  Li, Yupeng ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Lii, MingFwu ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Zhu, Ron X ^a   Gillin, Michael ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; LIGHT MODULATORS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROTON IRRADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

PARTIAL SHINING EFFECTS; RANGE MODULATOR WHEEL (RMW); SPREAD-OUT BRAGG PEAK (SOBP);

DOSIMETRY;

PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAK; WEIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 41849084141     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/3/007     Document Type: Article

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