Intensity modulated radiation therapy for oropharyngeal cancer: The sensitivity of plan objectives and constraints to set-up uncertainty

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3515-3533

  Ploquin, Nicolas ^a,b   Song, William ^c   Lau, Harold ^a   Dunscombe, Peter ^a,b  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; DRUG DOSAGE; PROBABILITY; TUMORS;

LYMPH NODES; OROPHARYNGAL CANCERS; OROPHARYNX; SPINAL CORD;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANCER GRADING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PAROTID GLAND; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 22544455638     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/15/003     Document Type: Article

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