Reirradiation of multiple brain metastases with helical tomotherapy : AAA multifocal simultaneous integrated boost for eight or more lesions;Rebestrahlung multipler Hirnmetastasen mittels helikaler Tomotherapie. Multifokaler simultaner integrierter Boost für acht oder mehr Läsionen

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-93

  Sterzing, Florian ^a   Welzel, Thomas ^b   Sroka Perez, Gabriele ^b   Schubert, Kai ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^b   Herfarth, Klaus K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Helical tomotherapy; Multifocal integrated boost; Reirradiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RELAPSE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61349104302     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1971-2     Document Type: Article

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