Planning evaluation of radiotherapy for complex lung cancer cases using helical tomotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3675-3690

  Kron, Tomas ^a   Grigorov, Grigor ^a   Yu, Edward ^a   Yartsev, Slav ^a   Chen, Jeff Z ^a   Wong, Eugene ^a   Rodrigues, George ^a   Trenka, Kris ^a   Coad, Terry ^a   Bauman, Glenn ^a   Van Dyk, Jake ^a  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PULMONARY DISEASES; TUMORS;

CONFORMAL DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY (HT);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4444313414     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/16/014     Document Type: Article

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