Commissioning of the discrete spot scanning proton beam delivery system at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Proton Therapy Center, Houston

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 154-163

  Gillin, Michael T ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Bues, Martin ^a   Ciangaru, George ^a   Sawakuchi, Gabriel ^a   Poenisch, Falk ^a   Arjomandy, Bijan ^a   Martin, Craig ^a   Titt, Uwe ^a   Suzuki, Kazumichi ^a   Smith, Alfred R ^a   Zhu, X Ronald ^a  

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

Author keywords

Clinical commissioning; Spot scanning proton beam

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PROTON BEAMS; SCANNING;

BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEMS; CLINICAL COMMISSIONING; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; SPOT SCANNING; TREATMENT INTERRUPTION; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

EID: 73649119897     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3259742     Document Type: Article

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