Helical Tomotherapy for Radiotherapy in Esophageal Cancer: A Preferred Plan With Better Conformal Target Coverage and More Homogeneous Dose Distribution

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 166-171

  Chen, Yi Jen ^c   Liu, An ^c   Han, Chunhui ^c   Tsai, Peter T ^c   Schultheiss, Timothy E ^c   Pezner, Richard D ^c   Vora, Nilesh ^b   Lim, Dean ^a   Shibata, Stephen ^a   Kernstine, Kemp H ^a   Wong, Jeffrey Y C ^c  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Helical tomotherapy; IMRT; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEART; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SPINAL CORD; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34547795396     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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