Quantification of volumetric and geometric changes occurring during fractionated radiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer using an integrated CT/linear accelerator system

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 960-970

  Barker Jr , Jerry L ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a   Ang, K Kian ^a   O'Daniel, Jennifer C ^a   Wang, He ^a   Court, Laurence E ^a   Morrison, William H ^a   Rosenthal, David I ^a   Chao, K S Clifford ^a   Tucker, Susan L ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomic changes; Conformal radiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Organ motion; Radiation response

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TISSUE; TUMORS;

MEDIAN RATES; RADIOTHERAPY (RT);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MANDIBLE; PAROTID GLAND; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL CANAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAROTID GLAND; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PILOT PROJECTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 3042520594     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2003.12.024     Document Type: Article

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