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A dosimetric phantom study of dose accuracy and build-up effects using IMRT and RapidArc in stereotactic irradiation of lung tumours

Overview of attention for article published in Radiation Oncology, May 2012
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Title
A dosimetric phantom study of dose accuracy and build-up effects using IMRT and RapidArc in stereotactic irradiation of lung tumours
Published in
Radiation Oncology, May 2012
DOI 10.1186/1748-717x-7-79
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Jan Seppala, Sami Suilamo, Jarmo Kulmala, Pekka Mali, Heikki Minn

Abstract

Stereotactic lung radiotherapy (SLRT) has emerged as a curative treatment for medically inoperable patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the use of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc treatments (VMAT) have been proposed as the best practical approaches for the delivery of SLRT. However, a large number of narrow field shapes are needed in the dose delivery of intensity-modulated techniques and the probability of underdosing the tumour periphery increases as the effective field size is decreased. The purpose of this study was to evaluate small lung tumour doses irradiated by intensity-modulated techniques to understand the risk for dose calculation errors in precision radiotherapy such as SLRT.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 3%
Nepal 1 3%
Unknown 31 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 27%
Researcher 5 15%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Other 3 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 9%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 6 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 15 45%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 6 18%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 May 2012.
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#15,245,883
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from Radiation Oncology
#1,036
of 2,044 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#104,745
of 165,196 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Radiation Oncology
#9
of 26 outputs
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