Novel Application of Helical Tomotherapy in Whole Skull Palliative Radiotherapy

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 282-285

  Rodrigues, George ^a   Yartsev, Slav ^a   Coad, Terry ^a   Bauman, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Helical tomotherapy; Metastatic prostate cancer; Palliative radiation; Planning comparison

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; SKULL IRRADIATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 54849434908     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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