A single-field integrated boost treatment planning technique for spot scanning proton therapy

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zhu, Xiaorong Ronald ^a   Poenisch, Falk ^a   Li, Heng ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Wu, Richard Y ^a   Li, Xiaoqiang ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Chang, Eric L ^a   Choi, Seungtaek ^a   Pugh, Thomas ^a   Frank, Steven J ^a   Gillin, Michael T ^a   Mahajan, Anita ^a   Grosshans, David R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Proton therapy; SFIB; Single field integrated boost; Single field optimization; Spot scanning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SPINE CANCER; SPOT SCANNING PROTON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADENOCARCINOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOMA; NEOPLASMS; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; CHILD; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTON THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84907397286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-9-202     Document Type: Article

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