CT-based study on potential mediastinal lymph node spread of patients with lung cancer: Contribution to 3-D treatment planning for adjuvant radiotherapy of the mediastinum

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 199-208

  Slanina, Joachim ^a   Laubenberger, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D treatment planning; Adjuvant mediastinal radiotherapy; CT reference series; Documentation; Lung cancer; Mediastinal lymph node spread

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036223266     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-002-0936-5     Document Type: Article

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