Adaptive radiotherapy with an average anatomy model: Evaluation and quantification of residual deformations in head and neck cancer patients

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 463-468

  Van Kranen, Simon ^a   Mencarelli, Angelo ^a   Van Beek, Suzanne ^a   Rasch, Coen ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^a   Sonke, Jan Jakob ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Non rigid registration; Systematic deformations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ALGORITHM; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEVICES; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84890115837     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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