Brachial plexus contouring with CT and MR imaging in radiation therapy planning for head and neck cancer

Radiographics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1095-1103

  Truong, Minh Tam ^a   Nadgir, Rohini N ^a   Hirsch, Ariel E ^a   Subramaniam, Rathan M ^a   Wang, Jimmy W ^a   Wu, Rebecca ^a   Khandekar, Melin ^a   Nawaz, A Omer ^a   Sakai, Osamu ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957697511     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.304095105     Document Type: Article

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