Multi-institutional comparison of volumetric modulated arc therapy vs. intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head-and-neck cancer: A planning study

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Holt, Andrea ^a,g   Van Gestel, Dirk ^b   Arends, Mark P ^c   Korevaar, Erik W ^d   Schuring, Danny ^e   Kunze Busch, Martina C ^f   Louwe, Rob J W ^f,h   van Vliet Vroegindeweij, Corine ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Radiotherapeutic Institute Friesland   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^h Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Multi institutional collaboration; Simultaneous integrated boost; SmartArc; Volumetric modulated arc therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NEUROIMAGING; OROPHARYNX CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MULTICENTER STUDY; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84873021839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-26     Document Type: Article

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