Daily Image Guidance With Cone-Beam Computed Tomography for Head-and-Neck Cancer Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy: A Prospective Study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1353-1359

  Den, Robert B ^a   Doemer, Anthony ^a   Kubicek, Greg ^a   Bednarz, Greg ^a   Galvin, James M ^a   Keane, William M ^a   Xiao, Ying ^a   Machtay, Mitchell ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CBCT; Cone beam computed tomography; head and neck cancer; IGRT; image guided radiotherapy; IMRT; intensity modulated radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTEROPOSTERIOR; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE ESCALATION; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LARYNX CANCER; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDUAL ERROR; TOXICITY REDUCTION; WEIGHT LOSS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL THERAPY; TARGETS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CANCER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 77949555037     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.03.059     Document Type: Article

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