Impact of Gastric Filling on Radiation Dose Delivered to Gastroesophageal Junction Tumors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 292-300

  Bouchard, Myriam ^a   McAleer, Mary Frances ^a   Starkschall, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose escalation; Gastric filling; Gastroesophageal junction cancer; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Radiation therapy treatment planning

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA SETS; DOSE ESCALATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; ESOPHAGEAL CANCER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL JUNCTION; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; SIMULTANEOUS INTEGRATED BOOSTS; TARGET COVERAGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANS;

FILLING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGETS; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL JUNCTION TUMOR; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; STOMACH EMPTYING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FASTING; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION; STOMACH; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77950570857     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.08.026     Document Type: Article

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