International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
Volume 73, Issue 4 , Pages 1270-1275 , 15 March 2009

Gated Irradiation With Scanned Particle Beams

  • Christoph Bert, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Abt. Biophysik, Darmstadt, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Christoph Bert, Ph.D., Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Abt. Biophysik, Planckstr. 1, Darmstadt 64291 Germany. Tel: (+49) 6159-71-1558; Fax: (+49) 6159-71-2106
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  • Alexander Gemmel, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Abt. Biophysik, Darmstadt, Germany
    • ,
  • Nami Saito, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Abt. Biophysik, Darmstadt, Germany
    • ,
  • Eike Rietzel, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Abt. Biophysik, Darmstadt, Germany
    • Siemens Healthcare, Particle Therapy, Erlangen, Germany

Received 11 July 2008 ,Revised 10 October 2008 ,Accepted 11 November 2008.

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 Conflict of interest: The Moving Targets project at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung was funded in part by Siemens Healthcare, Particle Therapy; E. Rietzel is an employee of Siemens Healthcare, Particle Therapy and is a Guest researcher at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung.

PII: S0360-3016(08)03805-4

doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.11.014

International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
Volume 73, Issue 4 , Pages 1270-1275 , 15 March 2009

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