Helical tomotherapy: Experiences of the first 150 patients in Heidelberg

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-14

  Sterzing, Florian ^a   Schubert, Kai ^b   Sroka Perez, Gabriele ^b   Kalz, Jörn ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^b   Herfarth, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INF 400 ^*

Author keywords

Helical tomotherapy; IGRT; IMRT; Megavoltage CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 38149079824     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1778-6     Document Type: Article

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