IGRT induced dose burden for a variety of imaging protocols at two different anatomical sites

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 355-363

  Stock, Markus ^a   Palm, Asa ^a   Altendorfer, Andreas ^a   Steiner, Elisabeth ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

ART; Dosimetry; Head and neck; IGRT; IMRT; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NECK; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED;

EID: 84857914218     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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