A dosimetric comparison of four treatment planning methods for high grade glioma

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Zach, Leor ^a   Stall, Bronwyn ^a   Ning, Holly ^a   Ondos, John ^a   Arora, Barbara ^a   Uma, Shankavaram ^a   Miller, Robert W ^a   Citrin, Deborah ^a   Camphausen, Kevin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; PRESCRIPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 71149090562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-4-45     Document Type: Article

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