A comparison of dose distributions of proton and photon beams in stereotactic conformal radiotherapy of brain lesions

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1439-1449

  Baumert, Brigitta G ^a   Lomax, Antony J ^b   Miltchev, Vesselin ^a   Davis, J Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Micromultileaf collimator; Spot scanning technique for protons; Stereotactic conformal radiotherapy; Three dimensional conformal radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; NEUROLOGY; PHOTONS; PLANNING; PROTON BEAMS; TUMORS;

BRAIN LESIONS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

PROTON;

BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSE VOLUME; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MICROMULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STEREOTAXIS; TARGET ORGAN; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PHOTONS; PROTONS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035312805     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)01422-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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