Optimizing radiation treatment plans for lung cancer using lung perfusion information

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 165-177

  Seppenwoolde, Yvette ^a   Engelsman, Martijn ^a   De Jaeger, Katrien ^a   Muller, Sara H ^a   Baas, Paul ^a   McShan, Daniel L ^b   Fraass, Benedick A ^b   Kessler, Marc L ^b   Belderbos, José S A ^a   Boersma, Liesbeth J ^a   Lebesque, Joos V ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Lung perfusion; Optimization; Radiation induced lung damage; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG TOXICITY; LUNG VOLUME; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036282813     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(02)00075-0     Document Type: Article

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