Adaptive functional image-guided IMRT in pharyngo-laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: Is the gain in dose distribution worth the effort?

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 343-350

  Castadot, Pierre ^a   Geets, Xavier ^a   Lee, John Aldo ^a   Grégoire, Vincent ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Anatomic modifications; Deformable registration; FDG PET; Functional imaging

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUOROURACIL;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MANDIBLE; MOUTH CAVITY; PAROTID GLAND; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL CORD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 81855161821     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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