Helical tomotherapy simultaneous integrated boost provides a dosimetric advantage in the treatment of primary intracranial tumors

Neurological Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 820-824

  Baisden, Joseph M ^a   Sheehan, Jason ^b   Reish, Andrew G ^c   McIntosh, Alyson F ^a   Sheng, Ke ^a   Read, Paul W ^a   Benedict, Stanley H ^a   Larner, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain sparing; Radiation induced encephalopathy; Simultaneous integrated boost; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80855129482     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132811Y.0000000035     Document Type: Article

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