Volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy for carcinomas of the oro-pharynx, hypo-pharynx and larynx: A treatment planning comparison with fixed field IMRT

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-117

  Vanetti, Eugenio ^a   Clivio, Alessandro ^a   Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Ghosh Laskar, Sarbani ^b   Agarwal, Jai Prakash ^b   Upreti, Ritu Raj ^b   Budrukkar, Ashwini ^b   Murthy, Vedang ^b   Deshpande, Deepak Dattatray ^b   Shrivastava, Shyam Kishore ^b   Dinshaw, Ketayun Ardeshir ^b   Cozzi, Luca ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Head and neck radiation therapy; IMRT; RapidArc

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SPINAL CORD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC RADIOTHERAPY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349214591     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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