Effects of the Bragg peak degradation due to lung tissue in proton therapy of lung cancer patients

PURPOSE: To quantify the effects of the Bragg peak degradation due to lung tissue on treatment plans of lung cancer patients with spot scanning proton therapy and to give a conservative approximation of these effects. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Treatment plans of five lung cancer patients (tumors of siz...

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Autores principales: Baumann, Kilian-Simon, Flatten, Veronika, Weber, Uli, Lautenschläger, Stefan, Eberle, Fabian, Zink, Klemens, Engenhart-Cabillic, Rita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6814996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31653229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-019-1375-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6814996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31653229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-019-1375-0

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