Evaluation of the planning target volume in the treatment of head and neck cancer with intensity-modulated radiotherapy: What is the appropriate expansion margin in the setting of daily image guidance?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 943-949

  Chen, Allen M ^a   Farwell, D Gregory ^a   Luu, Quang ^a   Donald, Paul J ^a   Perks, Julian ^a   Purdy, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Image guided radiotherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Marginal misses; Planning target volume

Indexed keywords

HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MARGINAL MISSES; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME;

EXPANSION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISTANT METASTASIS; DOSIMETRY; DYSPHAGIA; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KERATITIS; LARYNX EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; ODYNOPHAGIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80255141851     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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