Helical Tomotherapy-Based STAT Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy: Dosimetric Evaluation for a Real-Time SBRT Treatment Planning and Delivery Program

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 312-319

  Dunlap, Neal ^a   McIntosh, Alyson ^a   Sheng, Ke ^a   Yang, Wensha ^a   Turner, Benton ^a   Shoushtari, Asal ^a   Sheehan, Jason ^b   Jones, David R ^b   Lu, Weigo ^c   Ruchala, Keneth ^c   Olivera, Gustavo ^c   Parnell, Donald ^c   Larner, James L ^a   Benedict, Stanley H ^a   Read, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Hi ART; Radiosurgery; STAT RT; Stereotactic body radiation therapy; TomoTherapy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; LIVER INJURY; LUNG LESION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; SPINE DISEASE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78049460091     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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