An Assessment of Action Levels in Imaging Strategies in Head and Neck Cancer using TomoTherapy. Are Our Margins Adequate in the Absence of Image Guidance?

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 720-727

  Houghton, F ^a   Benson, R J ^a   Tudor, G S J ^a   Fairfoul, J ^a   Gemmill, J ^a   Dean, J C ^a   Routsis, D S ^a   Jefferies, S J ^a   Burnet, N G ^b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; IGRT; imaging protocols; IMRT; tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MALE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PAROTID GLAND CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349431083     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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