Dosimetric comparison of helical tomotherapy, RapidArc, and a novel IMRT & Arc technique for esophageal carcinoma

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-437

  Martin, Spencer ^a   Chen, Jeff Z ^a   Rashid Dar, A ^a   Yartsev, Slav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; IMRT; RapidArc; Tomotherapy; VMAT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 81855175342     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.08.030     Document Type: Article

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