Helical tomotherapy for total lymphoid irradiation

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 622-626

  McCutchen, Kathryn W ^a   Watkins, John M ^a   Eberts, Paul ^a   Terwilliger, Lacy E ^a   Ashenafi, Michael S ^a   Jenrette, Joseph M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Graft rejection; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Lymphatic irradiation; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; TOMOTHERAPY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 60549090128     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-008-0281-4     Document Type: Article

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