Interinstitutional Variations in Planning for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 416-425

  Matsuo, Yukinori ^a   Takayama, Kenji ^a   Nagata, Yasushi ^a   Kunieda, Etsuo ^b   Tateoka, Kunihiko ^c   Ishizuka, Naoki ^d   Mizowaki, Takashi ^a   Norihisa, Yoshiki ^a   Sakamoto, Masato ^a   Narita, Yuichiro ^a   Ishikura, Satoshi ^e   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Research Institute   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interinstitutional variation; Lung cancer; Stereotactic body radiation therapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY;

INTERINSTITUTIONAL VARIATION; LUNG CANCER; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ONCOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34248195116     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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