Evaluation of surface and superficial dose for head and neck treatments using conventional or intensity-modulated techniques

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1135-1146

  Higgins, P D ^a   Han, E Y ^a   Yuan, J L ^a   Hui, S ^a   Lee, C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETERS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; RADIOTHERAPY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

BILATERAL STATIC FIELDS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS (TLD); TOMOTHERAPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; STANDARD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

FLUORIDE; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM FLUORIDE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC PROTOCOLS; CALIBRATION; FLUORIDES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 34247108283     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/4/018     Document Type: Article

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