Preliminary investigations for the option to use fast uniform scanning with compensators on a gantry designed for IMPT

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5208-5216

  Zenklusen, Silvan M ^a,b   Pedroni, Eros ^a   Meer, David ^a   Bula, Christian ^a   Safai, Sairos ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

beam delivery; organ motion; proton therapy; uniform scanning; volumetric repainting

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; PROTON BEAMS; SCANNING;

BEAM DELIVERY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EQUIPMENT MODIFICATIONS; ORGAN MOTION; PROTON THERAPY; SCINTILLATING SCREENS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTION; VOLUMETRIC REPAINTING;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

EID: 80052412837     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3626483     Document Type: Article

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