Stereotactic body radiation therapy for liver tumours using flattening filter free beam: Dosimetric and technical considerations

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mancosu, Pietro ^a   Castiglioni, Simona ^a   Reggiori, Giacomo ^a   Catalano, Maddalena ^a   Alongi, Filippo ^a   Pellegrini, Chiara ^a   Arcangeli, Stefano ^a   Tozzi, Angelo ^a   Lobefalo, Francesca ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^b   Navarria, Piera ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^b   Scorsetti, Marta ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flattening filter free; Liver; RapidArc; SBRT; TrueBeam

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; DUODENUM; HEART; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SPINAL CORD; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; STOMACH; TARGET ORGAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY;

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84856367286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-16     Document Type: Article

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