Indications for tomotherapy/intensity-modulated radiation therapy in paediatric radiotherapy: Extracranial disease

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 971, 2008, Pages 872-880

  Plowman, P N ^a   Cooke, K ^b   Walsh, N ^b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CROMWELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EMBRYONAL RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONDON; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PELVIS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 55249098408     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/14878999     Document Type: Article

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