A simplified CT-based definition of the lymph node levels in the node negative neck

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-42

  Wijers, Oda B ^a   Levendag, Peter C ^a   Tan, Terence ^a   Van Dieren, Erik B ^a   Van Sörnsen De Koste, John ^a   Van Der Est, Henri ^a   Senan, Suresh ^a   Nowak, Peter J C M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformal radiation therapy; CT; Lymph node levels; Lymph nodes; Neck; Salivary glands

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SALIVARY GLAND; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; XEROSTOMIA;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODES; NECK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032843202     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00076-6     Document Type: Article

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