4D offline PET-based treatment verification in ion beam therapy

Due to the accessible sharp dose gradients, external beam radiotherapy with protons and heavier ions enables a highly conformal adaptation of the delivered dose to arbitrarily shaped tumour volumes. However, this high conformity is accompanied by an increased sensitivity to potential uncertainties,...

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Main Author: Kurz, Christopher
Format: Others
Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2014
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Online Access:http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17443/1/Kurz_Christopher.pdf
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-174437