Impact of residual setup error on parotid gland dose in intensity-modulated radiation herapy with or without planning organ-at-risk margin

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 453-459

  Delana, Anna ^a   Menegotti, Loris ^a   Bolner, Andrea ^a   Tomio, Luigi ^a   Valentini, Aldo ^a   Lohr, Frank ^b   Vanoni, Valentina ^a  

^a SANTA CHIARA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck; IMRT; Parotid sparing; PRV parotid gland; Setup error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PAROTID GLAND; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; PAROTID GLAND; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69549133346     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1888-9     Document Type: Article

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