IGRT with helical tomotherapy - Effort and benefit in clinical routine

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 183, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 35-37

  Sterzing, Florian ^a   Herfarth, Klaus ^a   Debus, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Helical tomotherapy; IGRT; IMRT; Megavoltage CT

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 37549071808     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-2014-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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