Adaptive radiotherapy for soft tissue changes during helical tomotherapy for head and neck cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 243-247

  Duma, M N ^a   Kampfer, S ^a   Schuster, T ^a   Winkler, C ^a   Geinitz, H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Head and neck neoplasms; Helical tomotherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Radiotherapy, image guided

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; MOUTH CAVITY; PAROTID GLAND; RADIATION DOSE; SOFT TISSUE; SPINAL CORD; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84862649690     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-011-0041-8     Document Type: Article

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