A Comparison of Soft-Tissue Implanted Markers and Bony Anatomy Alignments for Image-Guided Treatments of Head-and-Neck Cancers

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 767-774

  Zeidan, Omar A ^a   Huddleston, Adam J ^a   Lee, Choonik ^a   Langen, Katja M ^a   Kupelian, Patrick A ^a   Meeks, Sanford L ^a   Manon, Rafael R ^a  

^a M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bony anatomy Alignment; Daily IGRT; Head and neck cancer; Implanted markers; Megavoltage CT

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DOSIMETRIC IMPACT; GEOMETRIC ALIGNMENT; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMAGE SETS; IMAGE-GUIDED; INTERMARKER DISTANCES; MEGAVOLTAGE; MEGAVOLTAGE CT; MVCT IMAGING; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARD DEVIATION; TARGET COVERAGE; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; TARGETS;

ALIGNMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT PALATE; SOFT TISSUE; TONGUE;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE, SOFT; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 76049110577     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.02.060     Document Type: Article

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