Medical physics aspects of particle therapy

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 156-166

  Jäkel, Oliver ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

CALIBRATION; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYCLOTRON; FILM DOSIMETER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; IMAGING; ION THERAPY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; PHOTON THERAPY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIATION SICKNESS; RADIOBIOLOGY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SYNCHROTRON; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UVEA MELANOMA;

HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; PROTONS; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70450188175     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncp192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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