Comparison of fixed-beam IMRT, helical tomotherapy, and IMPT for selected cases

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1580-1592

  Muzik, Jan ^a,b   Soukup, Martin ^a   Alber, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; TISSUE;

DOSE OPTIMIZATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MONTE CARLO DOSE COMPUTATIONS; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG TUMOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; NEURINOMA; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SPOT SCANNING PROTON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 41449086621     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2890085     Document Type: Article

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