Proton beam therapy at Shizuoka Cancer Center

Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1806-1812

  Murayama, Shigeyuki ^a   Fuji, Hiroshi ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charged particle therapy; Neoplasms; Proton beam therapy

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY;

EID: 79959772572     PISSN: 03850684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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