Performance of the NIRS fast scanning system for heavy-ion radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5672-5682

  Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Sato, Shinji ^a   Shirai, Toshiyuki ^a   Takei, Yuka ^a   Takeshita, Eri ^a   Mizushima, Kota ^a   Iwata, Yoshiyuki ^a   Himukai, Takeshi ^a   Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Fukuda, Shigekazu ^a   Minohara, Shinichi ^a   Takada, Eiichi ^a   Murakami, Takeshi ^a   Noda, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

fast scanning; particle therapy; pencil beam scanning

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; HEAVY IONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; SPEED CONTROL;

FAST SCANNING; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; HIGH SPEED CONTROL; IRRADIATION SYSTEM; PARTICLE THERAPY; PENCIL BEAM; PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS; SCANNING IRRADIATION;

SCANNING;

EID: 78149447076     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3501313     Document Type: Article

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