Volumetric modulated arc planning for lung stereotactic body radiotherapy using conventional and unflattened photon beams: A dosimetric comparison with 3D technique

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Geoffrey G ^a   Ku, Lichung ^b   Dilling, Thomas J ^a   Stevens, Craig W ^a   Zhang, Ray R ^c   Li, Weiqi ^a   Feygelman, Vladimir ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Salem Hospital   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

PROTON;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80655139111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-152     Document Type: Article

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