Evaluation of a knowledge-based planning solution for head and neck cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 612-620

  Tol, Jim P ^a   Delaney, Alexander R ^a   Dahele, Max ^a   Slotman, Ben J ^a   Verbakel, Wilko F A R ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LIBRARIES; MUSCLE;

DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HOMOGENEITY INDEX; KNOWLEDGE BASED PLANNING; METHODS AND MATERIALS; OPTIMAL DETECTION; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CANCER; ORGANS AT RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RAPIDPLAN; SALIVARY GLAND CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MOUTH; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLE; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION RESPONSE; SALIVARY GLAND;

BENCHMARKING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MALE; MOUTH; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; ORGANS AT RISK; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SALIVARY GLANDS;

EID: 84923240850     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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