New techniques for assessing response after hypofractionated radiotherapy for lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 375-386

  Mattonen, Sarah A ^a   Huang, Kitty ^a,b   Ward, Aaron D ^a   Senan, Suresh ^c   Palma, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

hypofractionated radiotherapy (HFRT); image feature analysis; Lung cancer; positron emission tomography (PET); stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INJURY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOTACTIC ABLATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84900518391     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2013.11.09     Document Type: Review

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