A comparison of several modulated radiotherapy techniques for head and neck cancer and dosimetric validation of VMAT

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 388-393

  Stieler, Florian ^a   Wolff, Dirk ^a   Schmid, Heike ^a   Welzel, Grit ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a   Lohr, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT); Sequential tomotherapy; Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 81855175351     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.08.023     Document Type: Article

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