Use of kilovoltage X-ray volume imaging in patient dose calculation for head-and-neck and partial brain radiation therapy

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hu, Weigang ^a   Ye, Jinsong ^b   Wang, Jiazhou ^a   Ma, Xuejun ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; X RAY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; NK T CELL LYMPHOMA; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, EXTRANODAL NK-T-CELL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 77950949993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-29     Document Type: Article

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