Scanned proton radiotherapy for mobile targets - The effectiveness of re-scanning in the context of different treatment planning approaches and for different motion characteristics

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 7257-7271

  Knopf, Antje Christin ^a   Hong, Theodore S ^b   Lomax, Antony ^a,c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CT DATA; DELIVERY TECHNIQUES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-BLURRING EFFECTS; FIELD DIRECTIONS; MOBILE TARGETS; MOTION AMPLITUDES; MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; MOTION DIRECTION; MOTION EFFECT; MOTION PARAMETERS; PLANNING STRATEGIES; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY; SPOT SCANNING; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

SCANNING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MOTION; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 80155130439     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/22/016     Document Type: Article

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