Standard fractionation intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) of primary and recurrent glioblastoma multiforme

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Fuller, Clifton D ^a,b   Choi, Mehee ^a   Forthuber, Britta ^c   Wang, Samuel J ^b   Rajagiriyil, Nancy ^d   Salter, Bill J ^e   Fuss, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547799208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-2-26     Document Type: Article

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