Evaluation of tumor shape variability in head-and-neck cancer patients over the course of radiation therapy using implanted gold markers

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hamming Vrieze, Olga ^a   Van Kranen, Simon Robert ^a   Van Beek, Suzanne ^a   Heemsbergen, Wilma ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^a   Van Den Brekel, Michiel Wilhelmus Maria ^a,b   Sonke, Jan Jakob ^a   Rasch, Coenraad Robert Nico ^a,b  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONEBEAM CT; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; INTERMARKER DISTANCES; NORMAL TISSUE; OROPHARYNGEAL; PLANNING CT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VECTORS; TIME TRENDS; TUMOR MARKERS; TUMOR SHAPE; TUMOR VOLUMES; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

DISEASES; GOLD; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK MANAGEMENT; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CISPLATIN; GOLD; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TONGUE TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; GOLD; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MOVEMENT; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84865650910     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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