Portal imaging to assess set-up errors, tumor motion and tumor shrinkage during conformal radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-85

  Erridge, Sara C ^a   Seppenwoolde, Yvette ^b   Muller, Sara H ^b   Van Herk, Marcel ^b   De Jaeger, Katrien ^b   Belderbos, José S A ^b   Boersma, Liesbeth J ^b   Lebesque, Joos V ^b  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Netherlands Cancer I/A van L H ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Margins; Organ motion; Portal imaging; Radiotherapy; Set up error

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR REGRESSION;

EID: 0037249948     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(02)00287-6     Document Type: Article

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