On-line rapid palliation using helical tomotherapy: A prospective feasibility study

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-118

  MacPherson, Miller ^a,b   Montgomery, Lynn ^a   Fox, Greg ^a   Carty, Kathy ^a   Gerig, Lee ^a,b,c   MacRae, Rob ^a,b   Grimard, Laval ^a,b   Clark, Brenda G ^a,b,c   Samant, Rajiv ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Palliative radiation therapy; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41849141907     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.01.017     Document Type: Article

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