Motion effects in proton treatments of hepatocellular carcinoma-4D robustly optimised pencil beam scanning plans versus double scattering plans.
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DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aaecfc
Abstract: Pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy enables better dose conformality for complex anatomical geometries than passive proton scattering techniques, but is more susceptible to organ motion. This becomes an issue when treating moving tumours in… read more here.
Keywords: pencil beam; hepatocellular carcinoma; motion; beam scanning ... See more keywords