More than 10 years experience of beam monitoring with the Gantry 1 spot scanning proton therapy facility at PSI

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5331-5340

  Lin, Shixiong ^a   Boehringer, Terence ^a   Coray, Adolf ^a   Grossmann, Martin ^a   Pedroni, Eros ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beam monitoring; Dosimetry; Proton therapy; Spot scanning

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; MONITORING; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING;

BEAM MONITORING; BEAM POSITION MONITORING; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; IONIZATION CHAMBER DOSIMETRY; PROTON THERAPY; SCANNING TECHNIQUES; SPOT SCANNING; STANDARD DEVIATION;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 70350714765     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3244034     Document Type: Article

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