International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
Volume 67, Issue 1 , Pages 164-170 , 1 January 2007

Intensity modulated radiation-therapy for preoperative posterior abdominal wall irradiation of retroperitoneal liposarcomas

Presented in part at the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), October 16–20, 2005, Denver, CO.

  • Alberto Bossi, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Alberto Bossi, M.D., Department of Radiation Therapy, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Tel: (+32) 16-346900
    • ,
  • Ivo De Wever, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Erik Van Limbergen, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
    • ,
  • Bianca Vanstraelen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

Received 13 June 2006 ,Revised 25 July 2006 ,Accepted 16 August 2006.

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 Conflict of interest: none.

PII: S0360-3016(06)02785-4

doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.08.023

International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics
Volume 67, Issue 1 , Pages 164-170 , 1 January 2007

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