Independent dose calculations for commissioning, quality assurance and dose reconstruction of PBS proton therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2819-2836

  Meier, G ^a,b   Besson, R ^a   Nanz, A ^a   Safai, S ^a   Lomax, A J ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dose calculation; pencil beam scanning; proton therapy; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS;

CLINICAL TREATMENTS; CLINICAL WORKFLOW; DELIVERY UNCERTAINTY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; PENCIL BEAM; PROTON THERAPY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ALGORITHM; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTON THERAPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84925692134     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/7/2819     Document Type: Article

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