Change in dose distribution of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy during treatment for lung tumor

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 122-127

  Yamada, Kazunari ^a,b   Iwai, Keisuke ^a   Kawamorita, Ryu ^a   Okuno, Yoshishige ^a   Nakajima, Toshifumi ^a  

^a TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Hyogo Prefectural Tsukaguchi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interfractional deviation; Lung tumor; Three dimensional conformal radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STUDENT T TEST; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645754910     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02493278     Document Type: Article

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