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. 2018 Oct 18;10(10):388. doi: 10.3390/cancers10100388

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The active raster-scanned carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) alone in a patient with chondrosarcoma of the left vocal cord. CIRT was applied with two beams at 60 Gy (relative biological effectiveness, RBE) in 3 Gy (RBE) per fraction. (A) Axial dose distribution; (B) coronal dose distribution; (C) sagittal dose distribution; (D) dose-volume histogram: gross tumor volume (GTV) is demonstrated in green color, clinical target volume (CTV) in orange, CTV including a 5 mm safety margin in blue, the tracheoesophageal junction in pink, and the submandibular salivary gland in brown color.