Moving target irradiation with fast rescanning and gating in particle therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4874-4879

  Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Sato, Shinji ^a   Shirai, Toshiyuki ^a   Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Takeshita, Eri ^a   Mizushima, Kota ^a   Himukai, Takeshi ^a   Noda, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

moving target; particle therapy; pencil beam scanning

Indexed keywords

IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCANNING;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GATING TECHNIQUES; LATERAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MOVING TARGETS; PARTICLE THERAPY; PENCIL BEAM; RESPIRATION CYCLE; STATIC MEASUREMENTS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

HEAVY ION;

MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME;

HEAVY IONS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956305334     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3481512     Document Type: Article

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