Evaluation of geometric changes of parotid glands during head and neck cancer radiotherapy using daily MVCT and automatic deformable registration

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-88

  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

Daily MVCT; Deformable image registration; Head and neck cancer; Parotid gland changes

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 53049094349     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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