Residual setup errors and dose variations with less-than-daily image guided patient setup in external beam radiotherapy for esophageal cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-314

  Han, Chunhui ^a   Schiffner, Daniel C ^b   Schultheiss, Timothy E ^a   Chen, Yi Jen ^a   Liu, An ^a   Wong, Jeffrey Y C ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; Image guidance; Megavoltage CT; Setup error

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIMULATION; TOMOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY SETUP ERRORS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84857637142     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.07.027     Document Type: Article

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