Comparative study of layered and volumetric rescanning for different scanning speeds of proton beam in liver patients

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 7905-7920

  Bernatowicz, K ^a,b   Lomax, A J ^a,b   Knopf, A ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICINE; PHYSICS;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MITIGATION METHODS; PARAMETER SPACES; PARTICLE THERAPY; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME;

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PROTON THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84888625689     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/22/7905     Document Type: Article

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