Current progress in adaptive radiation therapy for head and neck cancer

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-147

  Schwartz, David L ^a  

^a North Shore LIJ Health System ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Clinical trial; Dosimetry; Head and neck cancer; Image guided; IMRT

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER RELAPSE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATITIS; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84860868459     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: 15346269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-012-0221-4     Document Type: Article

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