Compensator-based Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer: Our Experience in Achieving Dosimetric Parameters and their Clinical Correlation

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 485-492

  Nangia, S ^a   Chufal, K S ^a   Arivazhagan, V ^a   Srinivas, P ^a   Tyagi, A ^a   Ghosh, D ^a  

^a Batra Hospital India   (India)

Author keywords

Compensator; head and neck cancer; intensity modulated radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RELAPSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; PAROTID GLAND; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; XEROSTOMIA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 33745331781     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2006.03.018     Document Type: Article

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