Initial experience in treating lung cancer with helical tomotherapy

Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Yartsev, Slav ^a   Dar, A R ^a,b   Woodford, C ^a   Wong, E ^a,b   Bauman, G ^a,b   Van Dyk, J ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Helical tomotherapy; Image guided adaptive radiotherapy; Lung cancer; Megavoltage CT

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 35448940820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18235530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2349/biij.3.1.e2     Document Type: Article

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