Designing Targets for Elective Nodal Irradiation in Lung Cancer Radiotherapy: A Planning Study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1397-1403

  Kepka, Lucyna ^a   Tatro, Daniel ^b   Moran, Jean M ^b   Quint, Leslie E ^c   Hayman, James A ^b   Ten Haken, Randall K ^b   Kong, Feng Ming ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Elective nodal irradiation; Lung cancer; Planning study; Target volume delineation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IRRADIATION; NUMBER THEORY; TARGETS; TUMORS;

2D FIELDS; ANTEROPOSTERIOR; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; CT SCANS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTIVE NODAL IRRADIATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CANCER RADIOTHERAPIES; LYMPH NODES; TARGET VOLUME DELINEATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; AXILLA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PLANNING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 62649099160     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.07.036     Document Type: Article

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