Comparison of simple and complex liver intensity modulated radiotherapy

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Mark T ^a,b   Purdie, Thomas G ^a   Eccles, Cynthia L ^c   Sharpe, Michael B ^a   Dawson, Laura A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER TOXICITY; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649486230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-115     Document Type: Article

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