Novel technique of craniospinal axis proton therapy with the spot-scanning system: Avoidance of patching multiple fields and optimized ventral dose distribution

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 183, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 685-688

  Timmermann, Beate ^a   Lomax, Antony Jonathan ^a   Nobile, Luisa ^b   Grotzer, Michael Andreas ^c   Weiss, Markus ^c   Kortmann, Rolf Dieter ^d   Bolsi, Alessandra ^a   Goitein, Gudrun ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Hospital Locarno   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Craniospinal irradiation; Proton radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PHYSICS; RECURRENT CANCER; SKIN TOXICITY;

CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROTONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE; SPINAL CORD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36448950872     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-1759-1     Document Type: Article

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