A dosimetric comparison between two intensity-modulated radiotherapy techniques: Tomotherapy vs dynamic linear accelerator

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 964, 2008, Pages 333-340

  Whitelaw, G L ^a   Blasiak Wal, I ^b   Cooke, K ^b   Usher, C ^a   Macdougall, N D ^a   Plowman, P Nick ^a,b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CROMWELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ETHMOID SARCOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; SPINE METASTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; BLADDER; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ETHMOID SINUS; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPTIC NERVE; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN STEM; ETHMOID SINUS; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 42449134999     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/67084583     Document Type: Article

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