Radiotherapy of large target volumes in Hodgkin's lymphoma: Normal tissue sparing capability of forward IMRT versus conventional techniques

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cella, Laura ^a,b   Liuzzi, Raffaele ^a,b   Magliulo, Mario ^a   Conson, Manuel ^b   Camera, Luigi ^b   Salvatore, Marco ^b   Pacelli, Roberto ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL MULTI LEAF PARALLEL OPPOSED PLAN; FEMALE; FORWARD PLANNED INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; HEART; HISTOGRAM; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD; THYROID GLAND; TUMOR VOLUME; X RAY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BREAST; FEMALE; HEART; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; THYROID GLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951968035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-33     Document Type: Article

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