Respiratory motion management in particle therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 449-460

  Rietzel, Eike ^a,b   Bert, Christoph ^b  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charged particle therapy; Motion mitigation; Organ motion

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; MONITORING;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; MOTION MITIGATION; ORGAN MOTION; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MOTION TRACKING;

EID: 75749129109     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3250856     Document Type: Article

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