Uncertainty in treatment of head-and-neck tumors by use of intraoral mouthpiece and embedded fiducials

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1581-1588

  Oita, Masataka ^a,c   Ohmori, Keiichi ^b   Obinata, Kenichi ^b   Kinoshita, Rumiko ^a   Onimaru, Rikiya ^a   Tsuchiya, Kazuhiko ^a   Suzuki, Keishirou ^a   Nishioka, Takeshi ^a   Ohsaka, Hiroyasu ^a   Fujita, Katsuhisa ^a   Shimamura, Teppei ^b   Shirato, Hiroki ^a   Miyasaka, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Radiotherapy; Setup error

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HEAD AND NECK; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOM INTRAFRACTIONAL ERRORS; SETUP ERROR;

TUMORS;

GOLD; MARKER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GOLD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH PROTECTORS; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 33645334661     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.11.038     Document Type: Article

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