Evaluating target coverage and normal tissue sparing in the adjuvant radiotherapy of malignant pleural mesothelioma: Helical tomotherapy compared with step-and-shoot IMRT

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 251-257

  Sterzing, Florian ^a   Sroka Perez, Gabriele ^a   Schubert, Kai ^a   Münter, Marc W ^b   Thieke, Christian ^b   Huber, Peter ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Herfarth, Klaus K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Helical tomotherapy; Mesothelioma; MPM; Step and shoot IMRT

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; PERMETREXED; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS; HEART; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG RESECTION; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD;

HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39149123480     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.12.010     Document Type: Article

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