Dosimetric Evaluation of Automatic Segmentation for Adaptive IMRT for Head-and-Neck Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 707-714

  Tsuji, Stuart Y ^a   Hwang, Andrew ^a   Weinberg, Vivian ^b   Yom, Sue S ^a   Quivey, Jeanne M ^a   Xia, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Automatic segmentation; Head and neck cancer

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; ANATOMIC CHANGES; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFORMALITY; END POINTS; FORM REGISTRATION; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; INTENSITY-BASED; NORMAL STRUCTURE; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; SPINAL CORDS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSIMETRY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952585880     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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