An effective method to reduce the interplay effects between respiratory motion and a uniform scanning proton beam irradiation for liver tumors: A case study.

CONCLUSIONS: For liver tumor, this adaptive therapy technique showed significant improvement in dose uniformity even with fewer treatment fractions than normal USPB therapy. PMID: 30548791 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics - December 13, 2018 Category: Physics Authors: Akino Y, Wu H, Oh RJ, Das IJ Tags: J Appl Clin Med Phys Source Type: research