Optimal electron and combined electron and photon therapy in the phase space of complication-free cure

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 235-252

  Åsell, Mats ^a   Hyödynmaa, Simo ^b   Söderström, Svante ^a   Brahme, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON THERAPY; HEMISPHERE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PHANTOM; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ALGORITHMS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; ELECTRONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RECTUM; STROMAL CELLS; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 18544402557     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/1/017     Document Type: Article

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