The impact of daily setup variations on head-and-neck intensity-modulated radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 779-788

  Hong, Theodore S ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a   Chappell, Richard J ^a   Chinnaiyan, Prakash ^a   Mehta, Minesh P ^a   Harari, Paul M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Set up variation

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FRACTURE FIXATION; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; TOXICITY; TUMORS;

CONFORMAL TREATMENT; LASER ALIGNMENT; THERMOPLASTIC MASKING;

DOSIMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 13844254871     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.07.696     Document Type: Article

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