Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 95, Issue 1 , Pages 79-86 , April 2010

Spread-out antiproton beams deliver poor physical dose distributions for radiation therapy

  • Harald Paganetti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Francis H Burr Proton Therapy Center, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
    • ,
  • Michael Goitein

      Affiliations

    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Katia Parodi

      Affiliations

    • Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

Received 11 September 2008 ,Revised 11 March 2009 ,Accepted 14 March 2009.

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