Towards effective and efficient patient-specific quality assurance for spot scanning proton therapy

Cancers

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 631-647

  Zhu, X Ronald ^a   Li, Yupeng ^a   Mackin, Dennis ^a   Li, Heng ^a   Poenisch, Falk ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Mahajan, Anita ^a   Frank, Steven J ^a   Gillin, Michael T ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a  

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

Author keywords

IMPT; Patient specific QA; SFIB; SFO; Spot scanning proton therapy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROL SYSTEM; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; REVIEW; SPOT SCANNING PROTON THERAPY;

EID: 84929410265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers7020631     Document Type: Review

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