Collimator angle influence on dose distribution optimization for vertebral metastases using volumetric modulated arc therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4133-4137

  Mancosu, Pietro ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^b   Fogliata, Antonella ^b   Lattuada, Paola ^a   Reggiori, Giacomo ^a   Cantone, Marie Claire ^c   Navarria, Pierina ^a   Scorsetti, Marta ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

planning optimization; RapidArc; spinal cord compression; volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY;

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RAPIDARC; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; VERTEBRAL METASTASIS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78149480791     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3462560     Document Type: Article

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