Multiple regions-of-interest analysis of setup uncertainties for head-and-neck cancer radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1559-1569

  Zhang, Lifei ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a   Lo, Justin ^b   Ang, K Kian ^a   Ahamad, Anesa ^a   Morrison, William H ^a   Rosenthal, David I ^a   Chambers, Mark S ^a   Zhu, X Ronald ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancers; Immobilization; In room volumetric imaging; Setup corrections; Setup uncertainties

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

HEAD-AND-NECK CANCERS; IMMOBILIZATION; IN-ROOM VOLUMETRIC IMAGING; SETUP CORRECTIONS; SETUP UNCERTAINTIES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACE MASK; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JAW MOVEMENT; MAXILLA; PALATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; ROTATION; VERTEBRA BODY;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MASKS; MOUTH PROTECTORS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645371783     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.12.023     Document Type: Article

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