A planning comparison of dynamic IMRT for different collimator leaf thicknesses with helical tomotherapy and RapidArc for prostate and head and neck tumors

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 502-510

  Jacob, Vesna ^a   Bayer, Wolfgang ^a   Astner, Sabrina T ^a   Busch, R ^a   Kneschaurek, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Helical tomotherapy; IMRT; Prostate cancer; RapidArc

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PAROTID GLAND; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 77957764098     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2124-3     Document Type: Article

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