A comparative study of dose distribution of PBT, 3D-CRT and IMRT for pediatric brain tumors

INTRODUCTION: It was reported that proton beam therapy (PBT) reduced the normal brain dose compared with X-ray therapy for pediatric brain tumors. We considered whether there was not the condition that PBT was more disadvantageous than intensity modulated photon radiotherapy (IMRT) and 3D convention...

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Autores principales: Takizawa, Daichi, Mizumoto, Masashi, Yamamoto, Tetsuya, Oshiro, Yoshiko, Fukushima, Hiroko, Fukushima, Takashi, Terunuma, Toshiyuki, Okumura, Toshiyuki, Tsuboi, Koji, Sakurai, Hideyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28228150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-017-0775-2

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