Comparative Analysis of an Image-Guided Versus a Non-Image-Guided Setup Approach in Terms of Delivered Dose to the Parotid Glands in Head-and-Neck Cancer IMRT

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1266-1273

  Duma, Marciana Nona ^a   Kampfer, Severin ^a   Wilkens, Jan Jakob ^a   Schuster, Tibor ^a   Molls, Michael ^a   Geinitz, Hans ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Head and neck; IMRT; Parotid glands; TomoTherapy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HEAD AND NECK; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER IMRT; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE-GUIDED; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; PAROTID GLANDS; PATIENT SETUP; SETUP ERRORS; SETUP UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TOMOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERAPEUTIC ERROR;

ADULT; AGED; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77953609189     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.09.047     Document Type: Article

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