Dosimetric accuracy of planning and delivering small proton therapy fields

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 7425-7438

  Bednarz, Bryan ^a,b   Daartz, Juliane ^a   Paganetti, Harald ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE SCATTERING; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COLD SPOTS; DELIVERY PROCESS; FIELD CALCULATION; FIELD SIZE; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO MODEL; PENCIL BEAM ALGORITHMS; PROTON THERAPY; PROTON TREATMENT; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SMALL LESIONS;

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

PROTONS;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

BENCHMARKING; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650046520     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/24/003     Document Type: Article

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