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Feasibility study of conformal forward planned simultaneous integrated boost technique comparable to IMRT and VMAT in pelvic irradiation for locally advanced cervical cancer Cover

Feasibility study of conformal forward planned simultaneous integrated boost technique comparable to IMRT and VMAT in pelvic irradiation for locally advanced cervical cancer

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering
Volume 25 (2019): Issue 2 (June 2019)
By: Sam Deva Kumar Johnjothi,  Arulpandiyan Ranganathan,  Vasanth Christopher Jayapaul,  Rithesh Santosham,  Dhanabalan Rajasekaran,  Vivekanandan Nagarajan and  Selvaluxmy Ganesharaja  
Open Access
|Jun 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjmpe-2019-0015 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689
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Language: English
Page range: 111 - 119
Submitted on: Oct 23, 2018
Accepted on: Apr 9, 2019
Published on: Jun 18, 2019
Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
forward planning,
SIB,
field in field,
inverse planning,
biological evaluation,
carcinoma of the cervix
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Biomedical engineering,
Physics,
Technical and applied physics,
Medical physics

© 2019 Sam Deva Kumar Johnjothi, Arulpandiyan Ranganathan, Vasanth Christopher Jayapaul, Rithesh Santosham, Dhanabalan Rajasekaran, Vivekanandan Nagarajan, Selvaluxmy Ganesharaja, published by Polish Society of Medical Physics
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