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The effect of body contouring on the dose distribution delivered with volumetric‐modulated arc therapy technique

The purpose of the study was to investigate the dosimetric effect defining the body structure with various Hounsfield unit (HU) threshold values on the dose distributions of volumetric‐modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans. Twenty patients with prostate cancer and twenty patients with head and neck (H&...

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Autores principales: Lee, Jaegi, Park, Jong Min, Wu, Hong‐Gyun, Kim, Jin Ho, Ye, Sung‐Joon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5691003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26699591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v16i6.5810