Comprehensive analysis of proton range uncertainties related to patient stopping-power-ratio estimation using the stoichiometric calibration

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4095-4115

  Yang, Ming ^a,b   Zhu, X Ronald ^a,b   Park, Peter C ^a,b   Titt, Uwe ^a,b   Mohan, Radhe ^a,b   Virshup, Gary ^c   Clayton, James E ^c   Dong, Lei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIRECTION; COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH-DENSITY; HUMAN BODIES; LOW DENSITY; MULTIPLE BEAM; PROTON THERAPY; RANGE UNCERTAINTY; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE COMPOSITION; TISSUE TYPES; TREATMENT SITES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; HISTOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; TISSUE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY;

CALIBRATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84862573576     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/13/4095     Document Type: Article

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