Experimental characterization of lateral profiles of scanned proton and carbon ion pencil beams for improved beam models in ion therapy treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 7813-7827

  Schwaab, J ^a,b   Brons, S ^a   Fieres, J ^c   Parodi, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM LINES; BEAM MODEL; BEAM PROFILES; BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION MODELS; CALCULATION TIME; CENTRAL AXIS; DOSE CALCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; HEIDELBERG; ION THERAPY; LOW DOSE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERINGS; NUCLEAR INTERACTION; PENCIL BEAM; SECONDARY PARTICLES; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROTONS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

CARBON; PROTON; WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR; CARBON; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

EID: 82555196663     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/24/009     Document Type: Article

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