Validating the RTOG-endorsed brachial plexus contouring atlas: An evaluation of reproducibility among patients treated by intensity-modulated radiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1060-1064

  Yi, Sun K ^a   Hall, William H ^a   Mathai, Mathew ^a   Dublin, Arthur B ^b   Gupta, Vishal ^a   Purdy, James A ^a   Chen, Allen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus; Contouring atlas; Head and neck; IMRT; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CONTOURING ATLAS; HEAD AND NECK; IMRT; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; ATLAS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUP; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION STUDY;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84856394953     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.10.035     Document Type: Article

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