Data required for testicular dose calculation during radiotherapy of seminoma

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2391-2395

  Mazonakis, Michalis ^a   Kokona, Georgiana ^a   Varveris, Haralambos ^b   Damilakis, John ^b   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fertility; Radiotherapy; Seminoma; Testicular dose

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CORRECTION FACTORS; DIRECT CALCULATION; FERTILITY; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; BLAND ALTMAN ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTIS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THICKNESS;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33745648741     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2208936     Document Type: Article

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