Speed and accuracy of a beam tracking system for treatment of moving targets with scanned ion beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 4849-4862

  Saito, Nami ^a   Bert, Christoph ^a   Chaudhri, Naved ^a   Gemmel, Alexander ^a   Schardt, Dieter ^a   Durante, Marco ^a,b   Rietzel, Eike ^a,c  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM TRACKING; COMMUNICATION DELAYS; CURRENT SYSTEM; MOTION PREDICTION; MOVING TARGETS; PARAMETERIZED; PENCIL BEAM; PHANTOM STUDIES; POSITION DETECTOR; RANGE SHIFTERS; REQUIRED TIME; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RESPONSE TIME; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SCANNING MAGNET; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYSTEM RESPONSE TIME; TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE; TIME WINDOWS; TUMOURS; WATER EQUIVALENCE; WATER EQUIVALENT;

ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; IONS; NAVIGATION; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; REAL TIME CONTROL; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION SCATTERING; VELOCITY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RADIOTHERAPY; TIME;

MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69549099881     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/16/001     Document Type: Article

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