Set-up errors in patients undergoing image guided radiation treatment. Relationship to body mass index and weight loss

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1454-1458

  Johansen, Jørgen ^a   Bertelsen, Anders ^a   Hansen, Christian Rønn ^a   Westberg, Jonas ^a   Hansen, Olfred ^a   Brink, Carsten ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION TREATMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 51049108594     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860802256517     Document Type: Article

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