Adaptive biological image-guided IMRT with anatomic and functional imaging in pharyngo-laryngeal tumors: Impact on target volume delineation and dose distribution using helical tomotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-115

  Geets, Xavier ^a   Tomsej, Milan ^a   Lee, John A ^a   Duprez, Thierry ^a   Coche, Emmanuel ^a   Cosnard, Guy ^a   Lonneux, Max ^b   Grégoire, Vincent ^a  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; CT; FDG PET; Helical tomotherapy; IMRT; MRI; Multi modality imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX TUMOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARYNX TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNX CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 35248881233     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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