Can All Centers Plan Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) Effectively? An External Audit of Dosimetric Comparisons Between Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy and IMRT for Adjuvant Chemoradiation for Gastric Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1167-1174

  Chung, Hans T ^a   Lee, Brian ^b   Park, Eileen ^a   Lu, Jiade J ^a   Xia, Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Gastric neoplasms; IMRT; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

CHEMORADIATION (CRT); DATA-SETS; GASTRIC CANCERS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); ORGANS AT RISK (OAR); PINNACLE (CO); PLANNING TARGET VOLUME (PTV); THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY (3D CRT);

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLAS; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; KIDNEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STOMACH CANCER; TARGET VARIABLE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CLINICAL AUDIT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SINGAPORE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45449095195     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.11.040     Document Type: Article

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