Dosimetric Study and Verification of Total Body Irradiation Using Helical Tomotherapy and its Comparison to Extended SSD Technique

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 243-249

  Zhuang, Audrey H ^a   Liu, An ^a   Schultheiss, Timothy E ^a   Wong, Jeffrey Y C ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplant; Helical tomotherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Total body irradiation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PHANTOM; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SURFACE TO SURFACE DISTANCE TECHNIQUE; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 78049471525     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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