Development of treatment planning for scanning irradiation at HIMAC

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 266, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2194-2198

  Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Sato, Shinji ^a   Tomitani, Takehiro ^a   Kobayashi, Masanao ^a   Minohara, Shnichi ^a   Noda, Koji ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Particle therapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IRRADIATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; SCANNING;

BEAM STEERING FILE; PARTICLE THERAPY; PLANNED TARGET VOLUME (PTV); RASTER SCAN METHOD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 44449175948     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2008.02.070     Document Type: Article

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