Scanned carbon beam irradiation of moving films: Comparison of measured and calculated response

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bert, Christoph ^a   Richter, Daniel ^a,b   Durante, Marco ^a,b   Rietzel, Eike ^a,c  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILM DOSIMETER; ION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY FILM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIATION DOSE; VALIDATION STUDY;

FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; MOTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84859117642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-55     Document Type: Article

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