Golden beam data for proton pencil-beam scanning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1147-1158

  Clasie, Benjamin ^a   Depauw, Nicolas ^a   Fransen, Maurice ^a,b   Gom, Carles ^a   Panahandeh, Hamid Reza ^a   Seco, Joao ^a   Flanz, Jacob B ^a   Kooy, Hanne M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM CURRENTS; BEAM DATA; BRAGG PEAKS; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DEPTH DOSE; DIRECT MAPPING; ENERGY SPREADS; OPTIMAL REDUCTIONS; PHASE SPACES; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PHASE SPACE METHODS;

PROTONS;

ION; PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROTONS; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857598429     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/5/1147     Document Type: Article

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