Designed-seamless irradiation technique for extended whole mediastinal proton-beam irradiation for esophageal cancer

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Okonogi, Noriyuki ^a,b   Hashimoto, Takatuki ^a   Ishida, Masaya ^a   Ohno, Toshiki ^a   Terunuma, Toshiyuki ^a   Okumura, Toshiyuki ^a   Sakae, Takeji ^a   Sakurai, Hideyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Matching field; Proton beam therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESIGNED SEAMLESS IRRADIATION TECHNIQUE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDIASTINUM; ORGANS AT RISK; PROTON THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TUMOR BURDEN; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867598382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-173     Document Type: Article

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