Whole abdomen radiation therapy in ovarian cancers: A comparison between fixed beam and volumetric arc based intensity modulation

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mahantshetty, Umesh ^a   Jamema, Swamidas ^a   Engineer, Reena ^a   Deshpande, Deepak ^a   Sarin, Rajiv ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^b   Nicolini, Giorgia ^b   Clivio, Alessandro ^b   Vanetti, Eugenio ^b   Shrivastava, Shyamkishore ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^b  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; OVARY CANCER; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PHOTON; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANS AT RISK; OVARY TUMOR; PELVIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORGANS AT RISK; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 78149461467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-106     Document Type: Article

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