Application of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) in a dual-vendor environment

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Dobler, Barbara ^a   Weidner, Karin ^a   Koelbl, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; SPINE METASTASIS; TREATMENT DURATION; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; AGED; BONE TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; LARYNX TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77958139837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-95     Document Type: Article

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