Vision 2020: Proton therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 556-568

  Smith, Alfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadron therapy; Particle therapy; Proton therapy; Radiation oncology

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONVENTIONAL RADIATION THERAPY; HADRON THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED; PARTICLE THERAPY; PROTON DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RESEARCH FACILITIES;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ACCURACY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYCLOTRON; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SYNCHROTRON; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

CARBON; PROTON;

CARBON; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59249093490     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3058485     Document Type: Review

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