Preliminary evaluation of multifield and single-field optimization for the treatment planning of spot-scanning proton therapy of head and neck cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Quan, Enzhuo M ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Wu, Richard ^a   Li, Yupeng ^b   Frank, Steven J ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Zhu, X Ronald ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

intensity modulated proton therapy; multifield optimization; single field optimization; single field uniform dose; spot scanning proton therapy

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; PROTON BEAMS; SCANNING;

FIELD OPTIMIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPIES; MULTI-FIELD; PROTON THERAPY; SINGLE-FIELD UNIFORM DOSE;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPOT SCANNING PROTON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES;

PROTON;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84881654260     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4813900     Document Type: Article

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