Delineation in thoracic oncology: A prospective study of the effect of training on contour variability and dosimetric consequences

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dewas, Sylvain ^a,b   Bibault, Jean Emmanuel ^a,b   Blanchard, Pierre ^b,c   Vautravers Dewas, Claire ^b,c,d   Pointreau, Yoann ^b,c,d,e   Denis, Fabrice ^f   Brauner, Michel ^g   Giraud, Philippe ^h  

^a CENTRE OSCAR LAMBRET   (France)

^b Centre Antoine Béclère   (France)

^c INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^d CENTRE GEORGES FRANÇOIS LECLERC   (France)

^e CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^f centre Antoine Béclère   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Education; Inter observer variability; Lung cancer; Volume delineation

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENT; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; ALGORITHM; CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EDUCATION; FRANCE; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 80052853752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-118     Document Type: Article

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