A study on repainting strategies for treating moderately moving targets with proton pencil beam scanning at the new gantry 2 at PSI

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5103-5121

  Zenklusen, S M ^a,b   Pedroni, E ^a   Meer, D ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149297157     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/17/014     Document Type: Article

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