Constrained customization of non-coplanar beam orientations in radiotherapy of brain tumours

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 383-399

  Rowbottom, Carl Graham ^a   Oldham, Mark ^a   Webb, Steve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOMA; ALGORITHMS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0032914761     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/2/007     Document Type: Article

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