Hippocampal avoidance with volumetric modulated arc therapy in melanoma brain metastases – the first Australian experience

PURPOSE: Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) can deliver intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) like dose distributions in a short time; this allows the expansion of IMRT treatments to palliative situations like brain metastases (BMs). VMAT can deliver whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) with hippo...

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Autores principales: Awad, Raef, Fogarty, Gerald, Hong, Angela, Kelly, Patricia, Ng, Diana, Santos, Daniel, Haydu, Lauren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23497418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-8-62

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23497418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-8-62

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