Adaptive Radiotherapy Planning on Decreasing Gross Tumor Volumes as Seen on Megavoltage Computed Tomography Images

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1316-1322

  Woodford, Curtis ^a   Yartsev, Slav ^a   Dar, A Rashid ^a,b   Bauman, Glenn ^a,b   Van Dyk, Jake ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive planning; Helical tomotherapy; Lung cancer; Plan reoptimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ONCOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASES; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE PLANNING; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; LUNG CANCER; REOPTIMIZATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 35448992582     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2369     Document Type: Article

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