Impact of target reproducibility on tumor dose in stereotactic radiotherapy of targets in the lung and liver

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-150

  Wulf, Jörn ^a   Hädinger, Ulrich ^a   Oppitz, Ulrich ^a   Thiele, Wibke ^a   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography simulation; Conformal radiotherapy; Dose volume histogram; Stereotactic body frame; Stereotactic radiotherapy; Treatment accuracy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; STEREOTAXIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0037296427     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(02)00372-9     Document Type: Article

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