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A dosimetric phantom study of dose accuracy and build-up effects using IMRT and RapidArc in stereotactic irradiation of lung tumours

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Stereotactic lung radiotherapy (SLRT) has emerged as a curative treatment for medically inoperable patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the use of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc treatments (VMAT) have been prop...

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Autores principales: Seppala, Jan, Suilamo, Sami, Kulmala, Jarmo, Mali, Pekka, Minn, Heikki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22647680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-7-79