RapidArc, SmartArc and TomoHD compared with classical step and shoot and sliding window intensity modulated radiotherapy in an oropharyngeal cancer treatment plan comparison

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Van Gestel, Dirk ^a   van Vliet Vroegindeweij, Corine ^b   Van den Heuvel, Frank ^c   Crijns, Wouter ^c   Coelmont, Ann ^a   De Ost, Bie ^a   Holt, Andrea ^b   Lamers, Emmy ^b   Geussens, Yasmyne ^c   Nuyts, Sandra ^c   Van den Weyngaert, Danielle ^a   Van den Wyngaert, Tim ^a   Vermorken, Jan B ^a   Gregoire, Vincent ^d  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c Leuvens Kankerinstituut ^*  (Belgium)

^d CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dosimetrical comparison; Head and neck cancer; IMRT

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAROTID GLAND; PRESCRIPTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84873941032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-37     Document Type: Article

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