Quantitative analysis of beam delivery parameters and treatment process time for proton beam therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4329-4337

  Suzuki, Kazumichi ^a   Gillin, Michael T ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Zhu, X Ronald ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Lippy, Denise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Proton Therapy Center Houston Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

beam delivery parameter; efficiency; proton therapy; throughput; treatment time

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PROTON BEAMS; SURVEYS; THROUGHPUT;

BEAM DELIVERY PARAMETER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM; PROTON THERAPY; PROTON THERAPY SYSTEMS; QUADRATIC POLYNOMIAL; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS; TREATMENT TIME;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

EID: 79960212973     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3604153     Document Type: Article

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