The treatment of extensive scalp lesions combining electrons with intensity-modulated photons

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 152-155

  Chan, Maria F ^b   Song, Yulin ^a,b   Burman, Chandra ^b   Chui, Chen S ^b   Schupak, Karen ^b  

^a IEEE

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DOSIMETERS; ELECTRONS; HEALTH CARE; PHOTONS; TUMORS;

INTENSITY MODULATED PHOTONS (IMRT+E); PLANNING TARGET VOLUME (PTV); THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS (TLD);

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCALP; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34047129269     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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