Esophageal cancer: Determination of internal target volume for conformal radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 327-332

  Lorchel, F ^a,b,c   Dumas, J L ^a   Noel A ^b,c   Wolf, D ^c   Bosset, J F ^a   Aletti, P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b Service de Radiothérapie   (France)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN AUTOMATIQUE DE NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

Correlation study; Esophageal cancer; Gating; Internal target volume; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CALCULATION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RESPIRATION; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748697412     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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