Adaptive planning in intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck cancers: Single-institution experience and clinical implications

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 677-685

  Ahn, Peter H ^a   Chen, Chin Cheng ^a   Ahn, Andrew I ^a   Hong, Linda ^a   Scripes, Paola G ^a   Shen, Jin ^a   Lee, Chen Chiao ^a   Miller, Ekeni ^a   Kalnicki, Shalom ^a   Garg, Madhur K ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomic change; Dosimetry; Head and neck tumor; Positional change; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROTOCOL; ANATOMIC CHANGES; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL MONITORING; CLINICAL TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; HEAD AND NECK; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HEAD-AND-NECK TUMOR; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ORGANS AT RISKS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PLANNING CT; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; POSITIONAL CHANGE; SPINAL CORDS; WEIGHT LOSS;

BONE; DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ORGANS AT RISK; PAROTID GLAND; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SPINAL CORD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 79957575154     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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