Esophageal cancer dose escalation using a simultaneous integrated boost technique

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 468-474

  Welsh, James ^a   Palmer, Matthew B ^a   Ajani, Jaffer A ^a   Liao, Zhongxing ^a   Swisher, Steven G ^a   Hofstetter, Wayne L ^a   Allen, Pamela K ^a   Settle, Steven H ^a   Gomez, Daniel ^a   Likhacheva, Anna ^a   Cox, James D ^a   Komaki, Ritsuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; IMRT

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; DOSE ESCALATION; DOSE REDUCTION; ESOPHAGEAL CANCER; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; IMRT; ISODOSE DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL TISSUE; RISK OF FAILURE; SIMULTANEOUS INTEGRATED BOOSTS; SPINAL CORDS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; TARGET COVERAGE; TREATMENT PLANS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEART; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIVER; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HEART; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 83955161796     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.10.023     Document Type: Article

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