Experimental verification of a real-time compensation functionality for dose changes due to target motion in scanned particle therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5448-5458

  Lüchtenborg, Robert ^a,b   Saito, Nami ^a   Durante, Marco ^a,b   Bert, Christoph ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

beam tracking; dose compensation; organ motion; particle therapy; real time

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; TARGET TRACKING;

DOSE COMPENSATIONS; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; ORGAN MOTION; PARTICLE THERAPY; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME COMPENSATIONS;

MOTION TRACKING;

EID: 80053606508     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3633891     Document Type: Article

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