Lack of influence of intravenous contrast on head and neck IMRT dose distributions

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 90-94

  Létourneau, Daniel ^a,b   Finlay, Marisa ^a   O'Sullivan, Brian ^a   Waldron, John N ^a   Cummings, Bernard J ^a   Ringash, Jolie ^a   Kim, John J ^a   Bayley, Andrew J ^a   Dawson, Laura A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BONE DENSITY; BRAIN STEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; JAW TUMOR; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; SOFT PALATE CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CANCER; TONSIL CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; JUGULAR VEINS; NECK; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 37549061847     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860701418861     Document Type: Article

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