Optimization of dose distributions for adjuvant locoregional radiotherapy of gastric cancer by IMRT

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 179, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 557-563

  Lohr, Frank ^a   Dobler, Barbara ^b   Mai, Sabine ^b   Hermann, Brigitte ^b   Tiefenbacher, Uta ^b   Wieland, Petra ^b   Steil, Volker ^b   Wenz, Frederik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiochemotherapy; Gastric cancer; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STOMACH CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; POSTURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; SPINAL CORD; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0042090647     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-003-1087-z     Document Type: Article

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