Adaptive modification of treatment planning to minimize the deleterious effects of treatment setup errors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 197-206

  Yan, Di ^a   Wong, John ^a   Vicini, Frank ^a   Michalski, Jeff ^b   Pan, Cheng ^a   Frazier, Arthur ^a   Horwitz, Eric ^a   Martinez, Alvaro ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation therapy; Conformal therapy and dose escalation; Treatment setup error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; ERROR; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031127831     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00229-0     Document Type: Article

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