A statistical comparison of motion mitigation performances and robustness of various pencil beam scanned proton systems for liver tumour treatments.
CONCLUSION: Independently of PBS scanning dynamics, re-gating is sufficient to achieve acceptable 4D plan quality close to those of the static references.
PMID: 29459153 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - Category: Radiology Authors: Zhang Y, Huth I, Weber DC, Lomax AJ Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research
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