Helical Tomotherapy-Based STAT RT: Dosimetric Evaluation for Clinical Implementation of a Rapid Radiation Palliation Program

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 280-286

  McIntosh, Alyson ^a,b   Dunlap, Neal ^a,b   Sheng, Ke ^a,b   Geezey, Constance ^a,b   Turner, Benton ^a,b   Blackhall, Leslie ^a,b   Weiss, Geoffrey ^a,b   Lappinen, Eric ^a,b   Larner, James M ^a,b   Read, Paul W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Lung cancer; Palliation; STAT RT; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HEALTH PROGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG METASTASIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPINE METASTASIS; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78049467772     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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