Decreasing temporal lobe dose with five-field intensity-modulated radiotherapy for treatment of pituitary macroadenomas

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 379-384

  Parhar, Preeti K ^a   Duckworth, Tamara ^a   Shah, Parinda ^a   Dewyngaert, J Keith ^a   Narayana, Ashwatha ^a   Formenti, Silvia C ^a   Shah, Jinesh N ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Neuroradiology New York University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; IMRT; Pituitary adenoma; Radiation; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IRRADIATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

BEAM ANGLE; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COGNITION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE DELIVERY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FIELD INTENSITY; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; IMRT; INTEGRAL DOSE; MACROADENOMA; NEW YORK UNIVERSITY; NORMAL TISSUE; PITUITARY ADENOMA; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; TARGET COVERAGE; TARGET VOLUMES; TEMPORAL LOBES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY (3D-CRT);

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ADENOMA; HUMANS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77956528161     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.1695     Document Type: Article

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