Dosimetric precision of an ion beam tracking system

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bert, Christoph ^a   Gemmel, Alexander ^a   Saito, Nami ^a   Chaudhri, Naved ^a   Schardt, Dieter ^a   Durante, Marco ^a   Kraft, Gerhard ^a   Rietzel, Eike ^a,b  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; DOSIMETRY; ION THERAPY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION BEAM; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANIMAL; CHO CELL; CRICETULUS; HAMSTER; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

CARBON; ION;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; IONS; MOTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 77954044657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-61     Document Type: Article

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