Clinical relevance of different dose calculation strategies for mediastinal IMRT in Hodgkin's disease

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 653-659

  Koeck, J ^a   Abo Madyan, Y ^a,b   Eich, H T ^c   Stieler, F ^a   Fleckenstein, J ^a   Kriz, J ^d   Mueller, R P ^a,d   Wenz, F ^a   Lohr, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calculation algorithm; Collapsed cone; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Monte Carlo; Pencil beam

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864624825     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-012-0144-x     Document Type: Article

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