Whole Brain Radiotherapy With Hippocampal Avoidance and Simultaneously Integrated Brain Metastases Boost: A Planning Study
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Treating patients with brain metastases has evolved: scalp-sparing, hippocampal avoidance whole brain radiotherapy with simultaneous integrated boost.
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0360-3016
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.05.038