Random Positional Variation Among the Skull, Mandible, and Cervical Spine With Treatment Progression During Head-and-Neck Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 626-633

  Ahn, Peter H ^a   Ahn, Andrew I ^a   Lee, C Joe ^a   Shen, Jin ^a   Miller, Ekeni ^a   Lukaj, Alex ^a   Milan, Elissa ^a   Yaparpalvi, Ravindra ^a   Kalnicki, Shalom ^a   Garg, Madhur K ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck tumor; Immobilization; Radiotherapy; Repositioning accuracy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIATION DAMAGE; RANDOM PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

BONY ANATOMIES; CERVICAL SPINES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; HEAD AND NECKS; HEAD-AND-NECK TUMOR; IMMOBILIZATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; RANDOM VARIATIONS; REPOSITIONING ACCURACY; SEMI-RIGID; STRONG CORRELATIONS; VECTOR DISPLACEMENTS; WEIGHT LOSSES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LORDOSIS; MANDIBLE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SCOLIOSIS; SKULL; TREATMENT PLANNING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MANDIBLE; MOVEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; ROTATION; SKULL;

EID: 58149326848     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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