Comparison of surface doses from spot scanning and passively scattered proton therapy beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Arjomandy, Bijan ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Cox, James ^a   Lee, Andrew ^a   Gillin, Michael ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATIENT MONITORING; PROTON BEAMS; SCANNING; SURFACE SCATTERING;

DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DELIVERY TECHNIQUES; PROSTATE TREATMENT; PROTON THERAPY; PROTON THERAPY BEAMS; SCANNING BEAMS; SPECIFIC SITES; SPOT SCANNING;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

PROTON;

HUMANS; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 70349578936     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/14/N02     Document Type: Article

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