Special report: Workshop on 4D-treatment planning in actively scanned particle therapy-Recommendations, technical challenges, and future research directions

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4608-4614

  Knopf, Antje ^a   Bert, Christoph ^b   Heath, Emily ^c   Nill, Simeon ^c   Kraus, Kim ^c   Richter, Daniel ^b   Hug, Eugen ^a,g   Pedroni, Eros ^a,d   Safai, Sairos ^a,d   Albertini, Francesca ^a,d   Zenklusen, Silvan ^a,e   Boye, Dirk ^a,e   Söhn, Matthias ^f,h   Soukup, Martin ^f,i   Sobotta, Benjamin ^f   Lomax, Antony ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ CMS GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D treatment planning; motion; particle therapy

Indexed keywords

FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; MOBILE TARGETS; MOTION; PARTICLE THERAPY; PLENARY SESSIONS; STATE OF THE ART; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HEAVY ION; PROTON;

COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THERAPEUTIC USE; TRENDS; UNCERTAINTY;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77956329277     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3475944     Document Type: Article

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