A Prospective Evaluation of Helical Tomotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 632-641

  Bauman, Glenn ^a,b   Yartsev, Slav ^a   Rodrigues, George ^a,b   Lewis, Craig ^a,b   Venkatesan, Varagur M ^a,b   Yu, Edward ^a,b   Hammond, Alex ^a,b   Perera, Francisco ^a,b   Ash, Robert ^a,b   Dar, A Rashid ^a,b   Lock, Michael ^a,b   Baily, Laura ^a   Coad, Terry ^a   Trenka, Kris ^a   Warr, Barbara ^a   Kron, Tomas ^c   Battista, Jerry ^a,b   Van Dyk, Jake ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Helical tomotherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Technology assessment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLINICAL SETTING; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; PRETREATMENT; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT;

ONCOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 34247884338     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.11.052     Document Type: Article

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