Feasibility study of helical tomotherapy for total body or total marrow irradiation

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3214-3224

  Hui, Susanta K ^a,b   Kapatoes, Jeff ^c   Fowler, Jack ^b   Henderson, Douglas ^c   Olivera, Gustavo ^c   Manon, Rafael R ^b   Gerbi, Bruce ^a   Mackie, T R ^b,c   Welsh, James S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Limited MVCT; MVCT; Tomotherapy; Total body irradiation (TBI); Total marrow irradiation (TMI)

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; MODULATION; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

LIMITED MVCT; MVCT; TOMOTHERAPY; TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION; TOTAL MARROW IRRADIATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IRRADIATION; LUNG; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 27244461142     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2044428     Document Type: Article

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