A treatment planning study comparing helical tomotherapy with intensity-modulated radiotherapy for the treatment of anal cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-66

  Joseph, Kurian Jones ^a   Syme, Alasdair ^c   Small, Cormac ^a   Warkentin, Heather ^c   Quon, Harvey ^a   Ghosh, Sunita ^b   Field, Colin ^c   Pervez, Nadeem ^a   Tankel, Keith ^a   Patel, Samir ^a   Usmani, Nawaid ^a   Severin, Diane ^a   Nijjar, Tirath ^a   Fallone, Gino ^c   Pedersen, John ^a  

^a Division of Radiation Oncology   (Canada)

^b Division of Experimental Oncology

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anal cancer; IMRT; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PELVIC GIRDLE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANUS NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74549167775     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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