Craniospinal irradiation techniques: A dosimetric comparison of proton beams with standard and advanced photon radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 637-646

  Yoon, Myonggeun ^a   Shin, Dong Ho ^a   Kim, Jinsung ^b   Kim, Jong Won ^a   Kim, Dae Woong ^a   Park, Sung Yong ^a   Lee, Se Byeong ^a   Kim, Joo Young ^a   Park, Hyeon Jin ^a   Park, Byungkiu ^a   Shin, Sang Hoon ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Organ equivalent dose; Proton; Secondary cancer risk; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; ORGAN EQUIVALENT DOSE; ORGANS AT RISKS; PHOTON RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION-INDUCED CANCER; SECONDARY CANCER RISK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY (3D-CRT); TOMOTHERAPY;

DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; PHOTONS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ABDOMEN; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PANCREAS; PHOTON THERAPY; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL IRRADIATION; STOMACH; TERATOMA; THORAX; THYROID GLAND; TOMOTHERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MENINGES; ORGANS AT RISK; PANCREAS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHOTONS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SPINE; STOMACH;

EID: 80053615696     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.06.039     Document Type: Article

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