RapidArc® technology: First year of experience at the Montpellier comprehensive cancer centre;Technologie RapidArc®: Première année d'expérience au CRLC Val-d'Aurelle de Montpellier

Bulletin du Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 769-778

  Fenoglietto, P ^a   Ailleres N ^a   Lemanski, C ^a   Llacer, C ^a   Dubois, J B ^a   Azria, D ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Radiotherapy; RapidArc ; Volumetric arctherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TECHNIQUE; VOLUMETRY; ALGORITHM; ANUS TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; FRANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SARCOMA;

ALGORITHMS; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SARCOMA;

EID: 77955622209     PISSN: 00074551     EISSN: 17696917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/bdc.2010.1150     Document Type: Article

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