Dosimetric accuracy of tomotherapy dose calculation in thorax lesions

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ardu, Veronica ^a   Broggi, Sara ^a   Cattaneo, Giovanni M ^a   Mangili, Paola ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; LUNG; PHANTOM; THORAX; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORAX;

EID: 79651471427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-14     Document Type: Article

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