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Carbon-ion pencil beam scanning for thoracic treatment – initiation report and dose metrics evaluation

Carbon-ion beam scanning has not previously been used for moving tumor treatments. We have commenced respiratory-gated carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) in the thoracic and abdominal regions under free-breathing conditions as a clinical trial. This study aimed to investigate this treatment in the lungs...

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Autores principales: Karube, Masataka, Mori, Shinichiro, Tsuji, Hiroshi, Yamamoto, Naoyoshi, Nakajima, Mio, Nakagawa, Keiichi, Kamada, Tadashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27380799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrr/rrw057