4D calculation and biological dosimetry of the RBE-weighted dose for scanned carbon ion beam therapy

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 377-380

  Gemmel, A ^a   Bert, C ^a   Saito, N ^a   Chaudhri, N ^a   Iancu, G ^a   Neubeck, C V ^a   Durante, M ^a   Rietzel, E ^a,b  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D dose calculation; Biological dosimetry; Scanned ion therapy; Target motion

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CARBON; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ION BEAMS; IONS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL DOSIMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MODELING; CARBON ION BEAMS; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; DOSE CALCULATION; ION THERAPY; TARGET MOTIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MEDICAL PHYSICS;

EID: 77950382013     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03474-9_106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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