Clinical application of flattening filter free beams for extracranial stereotactic radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 255-259

  Lang, Stephanie ^a   Shrestha, Binaya ^a   Graydon, Shaun ^a   Cavelaars, Frederique ^a   Linsenmeier, Claudia ^a   Hrbacek, Jan ^a   Klöck, Stephan ^a   Studer, Gabriela ^a   Riesterer, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flattening filter free; Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLATTENING FILTER FREE BEAM; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84876059812     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.12.012     Document Type: Article

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