The incorporation of SPECT functional lung imaging into inverse radiotherapy planning for non-small cell lung cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 271-277

  Christian, Judith A ^a,c   Partridge, Mike ^a   Nioutsikou, Elena ^a   Cook, Gary ^a   McNair, Helen A ^a   Cronin, Bernadette ^a   Courbon, Frederic ^b   Bedford, James L ^a   Brada, Michael ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

^c NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Non small cell lung cancer; Radiotherapy; SPECT

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RADIATION INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 28944442705     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.08.008     Document Type: Article

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