Nasopharyngeal carcinoma: The impact of CT-scan and of MRI on staging, radiotherapy treatment planning, and outcome of the disease

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 128-133

  Manavis, John ^b   Sivridis, Leonidas ^b   Koukourakis, Michael I ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CT scan; MRI; Nasopharyngeal cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; PUBLIC POLICY; RADIOTHERAPY; SPECIFICATIONS; TUMORS;

DOSE SPECIFICATIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA (NPC); RADIATION FIELD DIMENSIONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 14844335719     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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