Prospective randomized double-blind study of atlas-based organ-at-risk autosegmentation-assisted radiation planning in head and neck cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 321-325

  Walker, Gary V ^a,b   Awan, Musaddiq ^a   Tao, Randa ^a   Koay, Eugene J ^a   Boehling, Nicholas S ^a   Grant, Jonathan D ^a   Sittig, Dean F ^b   Gunn, Gary Brandon ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a   Phan, Jack ^a   Morrison, William H ^a   Rosenthal, David I ^a   Mohamed, Abdallah Sherif Radwan ^a   Fuller, Clifton David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas based autosegmentation; Autocontouring; Automatic segmentation; Head and neck; Normal tissue; Organs at risk

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AUTOSEGMENTATION; BRAIN STEM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX; MANDIBLE; MANDIBLE CANCER; MOUTH CAVITY; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; ORGANS AT RISK; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTID GLAND CANCER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDENT; SOFT PALATE; SPINAL CORD; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIRST CERVICAL VERTEBRA; HEAD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CERVICAL ATLAS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84910147436     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.08.028     Document Type: Article

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