Investigation of dose homogeneity for loose helical tomotherapy delivery in the context of breath-hold radiation therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2387-2404

  Kim, Bryan ^a,b   Kron, Tomas ^a,b   Battista, Jerry ^a,b   Van Dyk, Jake ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DOSIMETERS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTONS; PLANNING; THIN FILMS; TUMORS;

DOSE MODULATION; GANTRY ANGLES; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY (HT); LOOSE HELICAL DELIVERY;

DRUG THERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 20044385607     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/10/014     Document Type: Article

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