Junctioning longitudinally adjacent PTVs with Helical TomoTherapy
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Junctioning longitudinally adjacent PTVs with Helical TomoTherapy
Irradiation of longitudinally adjacent PTVs with Helical TomoTherapy (HT) may be clinically necessary, for example in treating a recurrent PTV adjacent to a previously-treated volume. In this work, the parameters which influence the cumulative dose distribution resulting from treating longitudinally adjacent PTVs are examined, including field width, pitch, and PTV location. In-phantom dose dist...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1526-9914
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v11i2.3047