Multi-scenario based robust intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) plans can account for set-up errors more effectively in terms of normal tissue sparing than planning target volume (PTV) based intensity-modulated photon plans in the head and neck region

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Stuschke, Martin ^a,b   Kaiser, Andreas ^a,b   Jawad, Jehad Abu ^a   Pöttgen, Christoph ^a   Levegrün, Sabine ^a   Farr, Jonathan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b West German Proton Therapy Centre Essen (WPE)   (Germany)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; IMPT; Intensity modulated proton therapy; Re irradiation; Robust optimization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT PLANNING; CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; ORGANS AT RISK; PROCEDURES;

CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ORGANS AT RISK; PROTON THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84879051498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-145     Document Type: Article

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