Assessment of Parotid Gland Dose Changes During Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy Using Daily Megavoltage Computed Tomography and Deformable Image Registration

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1563-1571

  Lee, Choonik ^a   Langen, Katja M ^a   Lu, Weiguo ^b   Haimerl, Jason ^b   Schnarr, Eric ^b   Ruchala, Kenneth J ^b   Olivera, Gustavo H ^b   Meeks, Sanford L ^a   Kupelian, Patrick A ^a   Shellenberger, Thomas D ^a,c   Mañon, Rafael R ^a  

^a M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Anatomic changes; Deformable image registration; Head and neck cancer; Parotid gland dose

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; ANATOMIC CHANGES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DOSE DEVIATIONS; DOSE VARIATIONS; DOSE--VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HIGH-DOSE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PAROTID GLAND DOSE; PAROTID GLANDS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PAROTID GLAND; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 47149086554     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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