A treatment planning study comparing Elekta VMAT and fixed field IMRT using the varian treatment planning system eclipse

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Peters, Samuel ^a   Schiefer, Hans ^a   Plasswilm, Ludwig ^a  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology Kantonsspital St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dose volume histogram; Double arc; IMRT; Plan comparison; Single arc; VMAT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; OPERATOR; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RADIOTHERAPY UNIT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; ORGANS AT RISK; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84903862273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-9-153     Document Type: Article

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