Modulated beam conformal therapy for head and neck tumors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 227-236

  Boyer, Arthur L ^a   Geis, Paul ^a   Grant, Walter ^b   Carol, Mark ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NOMOS Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam modulation; Conformal radiotherapy; Mulileaf collimator; Optimization; Three dimensional treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030826242     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00065-5     Document Type: Article

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