Range and modulation dependencies for proton beam dose per monitor unit calculations

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 634-641

  Hsi, Wen C ^a,b   Schreuder, Andries N ^c   Moyers, Michael F ^d   Allgower, Chris E ^a   Farr, Jonathan B ^a,e   Mascia, Anthony E ^a  

^a Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Procure Treatment Centers Inc   (United States)

^d Optivus Proton Therapy Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective source; Monitor units; Proton beam; Scattering

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; PROTON BEAMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCATTERING;

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; EFFECTIVE SOURCE; MONITOR UNIT CALCULATIONS; MONITOR UNITS; NUCLEAR INTERACTION; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY; REDUCTION OF PROTONS;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; MODULATION; MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 59249097613     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3056466     Document Type: Article

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