Parotid Gland Dose in Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer: Is What You Plan What You Get?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1290-1296

  O'Daniel, Jennifer C ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a   Schwartz, David L ^a   Wang, He ^a   Ang, Kian K ^a   Ahamad, Anesa ^a   Rosenthal, David I ^a   Morrison, William H ^a   Asper, Joshua A ^a   Zhang, Lifei ^a   Tung, Shih Ming ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Anatomic variation; Image guided radiotherapy; Parotid gland; Setup uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; ANATOMIC VARIATIONS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; PAROTID GLANDS; SETUP UNCERTAINTY;

ONCOLOGY;

MARKER;

ARTICLE; BONE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PAROTID GLAND; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SPINAL CORD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35448993585     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2345     Document Type: Article

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