Comparison of linac based fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy and tomotherapy treatment plans for skull-base tumors

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-321

  Soisson, Emilie T ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a,b   Richards, Gregory M ^b   Mehta, Minesh P ^b  

^a Department of Medical Physics ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

Base of skull; EUD; IMRT; Tomotherapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINAC BASED FRACTIONATED STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKULL BASE TUMOR; STANDARD; TARGET ORGAN; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33645993577     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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