Can volumetric modulated arc therapy with flattening filter free beams play a role in stereotactic body radiotherapy for liver lesions? A volume-based analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1112-1118

  Reggiori, Giacomo ^a   Mancosu, Pietro ^a   Castiglioni, Simona ^a   Alongi, Filippo ^a   Pellegrini, Chiara ^a   Lobefalo, Francesca ^a   Catalano, Maddalena ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^b   Arcangeli, Stefano ^a   Navarria, Piera ^b   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 metastases; RapidArc

Indexed keywords

PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

FLATTENING FILTER FREE; HYPOFRACTIONATED RADIOTHERAPIES; LIVER METASTASIS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RAPIDARC; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

PATHOLOGY;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84856971033     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3679858     Document Type: Article

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