Quantification of Dosimetric Impact of Implementation of On-Board Imaging (OBI) for IMRT Treatment of Head-And-Neck Malignancies

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 287-294

  Lawson, Joshua D ^a   Elder, Eric ^a   Fox, Tim ^a   Davis, Lawrence ^a   Crocker, Ian ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck malignancies; Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT); Interfraction motion management; On Board Imaging (OBI)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; ON BOARD IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPINAL CORD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35548942750     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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