Longitudinal assessment of parotid function in patients receiving tomotherapy for head-and-neck cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 400-405

  Voordeckers, Mia ^a   Everaert, Hendrik ^a   Tournel, Koen ^a   Verellen, Dirk ^a   Baron, Ilan ^a   Van Esch, Gretel ^a   Vanhove, Chris ^a   Storme, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Helical tomotherapy; Parotid sparing

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; TECHNETIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PAROTID GLAND; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SALIVARY GLAND FUNCTION; SALIVARY GLAND SCINTISCANNING; SALIVATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; XEROSTOMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SALIVATION; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 56149089486     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1836-0     Document Type: Article

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