New multileaf collimator with a leaf width of 5 mm improves plan quality compared to 10 mm in step-and-shoot IMRT of HNC using integrated boost procedure

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 334-343

  Zwicker, Felix ^a,b   Hauswald, Henrik ^a   Nill, Simeon ^b   Rhein, Bernhard ^b   Thieke, Christian ^b   Roeder, Falk ^a,b   Timke, Carmen ^a,b   Bois, Angelika Zabel Du ^a,b   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Huber, Peter E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 mm leaf width; Conformity index (CI); Head and neck cancer (HNC); IMRT; Multileaf collimator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; FILTER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PARAMETER; PAROTID GLAND; PHANTOM; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954035529     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2103-8     Document Type: Article

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