Comparison of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) with intensity modulated particle therapy (IMPT) using fixed beams or an ion gantry for the treatment of patients with skull base meningiomas

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kosaki, Katsura ^a,b   Ecker, Swantje ^b   Habermehl, Daniel ^b   Rieken, Stefan ^b   Jäkel, Oliver ^b,c   Herfarth, Klaus ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^b   Combs, Stephanie E ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon ions; Gantry; Photon IMRT; Plan comparison; Protons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHMOID SINUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED PARTICLE THERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ION THERAPY; LENS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; OPTIC NERVE; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SPHENOID SINUS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CARBON; ION; PROTON;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBON; FEMALE; HUMANS; IONS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84858710605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-44     Document Type: Article

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