Using a reduced spot size for intensity-modulated proton therapy potentially improves salivary gland-sparing in oropharyngeal cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Van De Water, Tara A ^a   Lomax, Antony J ^b   Bijl, Hendrik P ^a   Schilstra, Cornelis ^a   Hug, Eugen B ^b   Langendijk, Johannes A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Comparative treatment planning; Head and neck; IMPT; Intensity modulated proton therapy

Indexed keywords

DOSE REDUCTION; DOSE-VOLUME; HEAD AND NECK; IMPT; INTENSITY-MODULATED PROTON THERAPY; MEAN DOSE; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES; ORAL CAVITY; OROPHARYNGEAL CANCER; PAROTID GLANDS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SALIVARY DYSFUNCTION; SALIVARY FLOW; SALIVARY GLANDS; SOFT PALATES; SPOT SIZES; SUBMANDIBULAR GLANDS; TARGET COVERAGE; TREATMENT PLANNING; XEROSTOMIA;

DISEASES; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; TISSUE;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE TOXICOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MOUTH CAVITY; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SAFETY; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SALIVATION; SOFT PALATE; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; XEROSTOMIA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; MOUTH; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; ORGANS AT RISK; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE, SOFT; PAROTID GLAND; PROBABILITY; PROTONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SALIVARY GLANDS; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84855837711     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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