Three-dimensional dose addition of external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy for oropharyngeal patients using nonrigid registration

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1268-1277

  Vásquez Osorio, Eliana M ^a   Hoogeman, Mischa S ^a   Teguh, David N ^a   Al Mamgani, Abrahim ^a   Kolkman Deurloo, Inger Karine K ^a   Bondar, Luiza ^a   Levendag, Peter C ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Head and neck; Nonrigid registration; Three dimensional dose addition

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; EQUIVALENT DOSE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GAMMA ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK; INPUT PARAMETER; NON-RIGID TRANSFORMATION; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; OROPHARYNGEAL; REGISTRATION METHODS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; STEEP GRADIENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOSE ADDITION; TOTAL DOSE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SALIVARY GLAND; SWALLOWING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959352487     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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