Dosimetric comparison of Helical Tomotherapy and Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery for single brain metastasis

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Helical Tomotherapy (HT) integrates linear accelerator and computerized tomography (CT) technology to deliver IMRT. Targets are localized (i.e. outlined as gross tumor volume [GTV] and planning target volume [PTV]) on the planning kV...

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Main Authors: Linskey Mark E, Shi Chengyu, Yan Yulong, Peñagarícano José A, Ratanatharathorn Vaneerat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-08-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.ro-journal.com/content/1/1/26