A fast radiotherapy paradigm for anal cancer with volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Stieler, Florian ^a   Wolff, Dirk ^a   Lohr, Frank ^a   Steil, Volker ^a   Abo Madyan, Yasser ^a,b   Lorenz, Friedlieb ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a   Mai, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TARGET ORGAN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; ANUS TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANUS NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 71149116382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-4-48     Document Type: Article

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