Evaluation of hybrid depth scanning for carbon-ion radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2820-2825

  Inaniwa, Taku ^a   Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a   Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Mizushima, Kota ^a   Sato, Shinji ^a   Toshito, Toshiyuki ^b   Shirai, Toshiyuki ^a   Noda, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Health and Welfare Bureau   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon therapy; depth scan technique

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ION BEAMS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING;

BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEMS; CARBON ION RADIOTHERAPY; CARBON THERAPY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MONTE CARLO CODES; OPERATION CYCLES; SCAN TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84861601600     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4705357     Document Type: Article

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