Helical Tomotherapy for Parotid Gland Tumors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 883-891

  Lee, Tae Kyu ^a   Rosen, Isaac I ^a,b   Gibbons, John P ^a,b   Fields, Robert S ^a   Hogstrom, Kenneth R ^a,b  

^a MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; IMRT; NTCP; Parotid; TCP; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY (HT); PAROTID;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; HUMANS; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 39049111904     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.10.024     Document Type: Article

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