Recommendation for a contouring method and atlas of organs at risk in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients receiving intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 390-397

  Sun, Ying ^a   Yu, Xiao Li ^a   Luo, Wei ^a   Lee, Anne W M ^b   Wee, Joseph Tien Seng ^c   Lee, Nancy ^d   Zhou, Guan Qun ^a   Tang, Ling Long ^a   Tao, Chang Juan ^a   Guo, Rui ^a   Mao, Yan Ping ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a   Guo, Ying ^a   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG SHENZHEN HOSPITAL   (China)

^c DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Organs at risk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INNER EAR; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MIDDLE EAR; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE NECROSIS; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84899553019     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.10.035     Document Type: Article

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