Treatment planning for laser-accelerated very-high energy electrons

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3315-3328

  Fuchs, T ^a   Szymanowski, H ^a   Oelfke, U ^a   Glinec, Y ^b   Rechatin, C ^b   Faure, J ^b   Malka, V ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; BEAM ENERGIES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY SPREADS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMORAL HEADS; HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON; INVERSE TREATMENT; LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR; MAGNETIC FOCUSING; MONOENERGETIC; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ORGANS AT RISKS; PROSTATE TREATMENT; RADIATION THERAPY; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; TARGET COVERAGE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

LASERS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LASER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MAGNETISM; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE;

WATER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; LASERS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; WATER;

EID: 69249235509     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/11/003     Document Type: Article

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