Reduction of the number of stacking layers in proton uniform scanning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3101-3111

  Fujitaka, Shinichiro ^a   Takayanagi, Taisuke ^a   Fujimoto, Rintaro ^a   Fujii, Yusuke ^a   Nishiuchi, Hideaki ^a   Ebina, Futaro ^a   Okazaki, Takashi ^a   Hiramoto, Kazuo ^a   Sakae, Takeji ^b   Terunuma, Toshiyuki ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM SIZE; BEAM STACKING; BRAGG PEAKS; LOW ENERGY REGIONS; STACKED LAYER; STACKING LAYERS; UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY;

BRAGG CELLS; IRRADIATION;

SCANNING;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; FILTER; IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67650730024     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/10/009     Document Type: Article

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