Comparison of direct machine parameter optimization versus fluence optimization with sequential sequencing in IMRT of hypopharyngeal carcinoma

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Dobler, Barbara ^a   Pohl, Fabian ^a   Bogner, Ludwig ^a   Koelbl, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPINAL CORD;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; PAROTID GLAND; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 36148933035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-2-33     Document Type: Article

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