Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck cancer

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 515-521

  Chou, William W ^a   Puri, Dev R ^a   Lee, Nancy Y ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Radiotherapy; Volume delineation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LONG TERM CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; XEROSTOMIA;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21244501798     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.5.3.515     Document Type: Review

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