Influence of the SURLAS applicator on radiation dose distributions during simultaneous thermoradiotherapy with helical tomotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2509-2522

  Novák, Petr ^a   Peñagarícano, José A ^a   Nahirnyak, Volodymyr ^a   Corry, Peter ^a   Moros, Eduardo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; ONCOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

LINEAR ARRAY SYSTEMS; SCANNING ULTRASOUND; THERMORADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; IONIZATION; MAGNETISM; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; METALS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 42649118127     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/10/004     Document Type: Article

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