A comparison of prostate IMRT and helical tomotherapy class solutions

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 374-377

  Rodrigues, George ^a,b   Yartsev, Slav ^a   Chen, Jeff ^a,b   Wong, Eugene ^a,b   D'Souza, David ^a,b   Lock, Michael ^a,b   Bauman, Glenn ^a,b   Grigorov, Grigor ^c   Kron, Tomas ^a,b  

^a London Health Sciences ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Grand River Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33748856001     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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