Dose-and LET-painting with particle therapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1170-1176

  Bassler, Niels ^a,b   Jäkel, Oliver ^c   Søndergaard, Christian Skou ^a   Petersen, Jørgen B ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOXIA; ION THERAPY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; OXYGEN ENHANCEMENT RATIO; PARTICLE RADIATION; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEOPLASMS; OXYGEN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 77956606102     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2010.510640     Document Type: Article

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