Treatment planning for pulsed reduced dose-rate radiotherapy in helical tomotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 934-942

  Rong, Yi ^a,b   Paliwal, Bhudatt ^a   Howard, Steven P ^a   Welsh, James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UW Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Helical tomotherapy; multileaf collimator; pulsed reduced dose rate radiotherapy; reirradiation; tumor recurrence

Indexed keywords

DELIVERABILITY; DOSE-RATE; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; EFFECTIVE DOSE; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HOMOGENEITY INDEX; LOW DOSE; MODULATION FACTORS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; NORMAL-TISSUE TOXICITY; PATIENT CASE; PLAN QUALITY; REIRRADIATION; SUBFRACTIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT TIME;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SICKNESS; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; AXILLA; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETREATMENT; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 79551502233     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.05.055     Document Type: Article

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