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Oliver Jäkel
Medical Physics
Calculation
stationary
organ motion
interplay
Rietzel and Bert, GSI, 2006/2007
Organ motion in scanned beams
Scanning will generally not lead to a
homogeneous dose for moving organs
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Oliver Jäkel
Medical Physics
Thomas Bortfeld
Much work is put in the
development of motion
mitigation and in-vivo
monitoring (prompt
gamma, PET, etc.)
We are not making use of the full
potential of particle therapy.