Comparison of anisotropic aperture based intensity modulated radiotherapy with 3D-conformal radiotherapy for the treatment of large lung tumors

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 268-273

  Simeonova, Anna ^a   Abo Madyan, Yasser ^a,b   El Haddad, Mostafa ^b   Welzel, Grit ^a   Polednik, Martin ^a   Boggula, Ramesh ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a   Lohr, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Anisotropic modulation; Aperture based; IMRT; Lung tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857630104     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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