Whole Brain Radiotherapy With Hippocampal Avoidance and Simultaneously Integrated Brain Metastases Boost: A Planning Study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 589-597

  Gutiérrez, Alonso N ^a   Westerly, David C ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a   Jaradat, Hazim A ^a   Mackie, Thomas R ^a,b   Bentzen, Søren M ^a   Khuntia, Deepak ^a   Mehta, Minesh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Conformal avoidance; Hippocampus; Tomotherapy; Whole brain

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DOSIMETRY; DRUG DELIVERY; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

BRAIN METASTASES; CONFORMAL AVOIDANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; TOMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; EYE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34548507015     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.05.038     Document Type: Article

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