The dose to the parotid glands with IMRT for oropharyngeal tumors: The effect of reduction of positioning margins

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 197-204

  Van Asselen, Bram ^a   Dehnad, Homan ^a   Raaijmakers, Cornelis P J ^a   Roesink, Judith M ^a   Lagendijk, Jan J W ^a   Terhaard, Chris H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Margin; Oropharynx; Parotid gland

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PAROTID GLAND; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; XEROSTOMIA;

HUMANS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PAROTID GLAND; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0036669821     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(02)00152-4     Document Type: Article

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