Comparison of arc-modulated cone beam therapy and helical tomotherapy for three different types of cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4702-4710

  Ulrich, Silke ^a   Sterzing, Florian ^b   Nill, Simeon ^a   Schubert, Kai ^b   Herfarth, Klaus K ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^b   Oelfke, Uwe ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arc modulated cone beam therapy; Helical tomotherapy; Single arc therapy; Volumetric modulated arc therapy

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

ARC THERAPY; CONE BEAM; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANUS CANCER; ARC MODULATED CONE BEAM THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 70349655717     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3223633     Document Type: Article

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