In the context of radiosurgery - Pros and cons of rescanning as a solution for treating moving targets with scanned particle beams

Physica Medica

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 551-554

  Knopf, Antje Christin ^a,b   Lomax, Antony John ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hypo fractionated treatment; Radiosurgery; Rescanning; Scanned particle beams; Target motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; BREATHING; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; PARTICLE RADIATION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VELOCITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROCEDURES; TIME;

MOVEMENT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902282868     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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