Comparing 3DCRT and inversely optimized IMRT planning for head and neck cancer: Equivalence between step-and-shoot and sliding window techniques

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 148-156

  Longobardi, Barbara ^a   De Martin, Elena ^a   Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Dell'oca, Italo ^b   Broggi, Sara ^a   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a  

^a Servizio di Fisica Sanitaria   (Italy)

^b Radiotherapy Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

3DCRT; Head and neck radiotherapy; IMRT; NTCP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAROTID GLAND CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27944471351     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.09.011     Document Type: Article

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