Open AccessCharacterization and performance evaluation of the first-proton therapy facility in India
Author(s) -
Dayananda Shamurailatpam Sharma,
A. Manikandan,
K Ganapathy,
Manthala Padannayil Noufal,
Kartikeswar Patro,
Rajesh Thiyagarajan,
Rakesh Jalali
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medical physics/journal of medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3913
pISSN - 0971-6203
DOI - 10.4103/jmp.jmp_12_20
Subject(s) - proton therapy , pencil beam scanning , reproducibility , nuclear medicine , proton , standard deviation , beam (structure) , materials science , linear particle accelerator , optics , pencil (optics) , tomotherapy , physics , mathematics , nuclear physics , radiation therapy , medicine , statistics
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance characteristic of volumetric image-guided dedicated-nozzle pencil beam-scanning proton therapy (PT) system.