Treatment planning optimisation in proton therapy
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Treatment planning optimisation in proton therapy.
The goal of radiotherapy is to achieve uniform target coverage while sparing normal tissue. In proton therapy, the same sources of geometric uncertainty are present as in conventional radiotherapy. However, an important and fundamental difference in proton therapy is that protons have a finite range, highly dependent on the electron density of the material they are traversing, resulting in a st...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Radiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0007-1285,1748-880X
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20120288