Clinical advantages of carbon-ion radiotherapy

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tsujii, Hirohiko ^a   Kamada, Tadashi ^a   Baba, Masayuki ^a   Tsuji, Hiroshi ^a   Kato, Hirotoshi ^a   Kato, Shingo ^a   Yamada, Shigeru ^a   Yasuda, Shigeo ^a   Yanagi, Takeshi ^a   Kato, Hiroyuki ^a   Hara, Ryusuke ^a   Yamamoto, Naotaka ^a   Mizoe, Junetsu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; HEAVY IONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

CARBON THERAPY; HEAD AND NECK; HEAVY ION MEDICAL ACCELERATOR IN CHIBA (HIMAC); MALIGNANT MELANOMAS; OVERALL TREATMENT TIME; RECTAL CANCERS; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; SKULL BASE; SOFT TISSUES;

IONS;

EID: 48249139435     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/7/075009     Document Type: Article

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