Characterization of volume and shape modifications of PET-positive nodes during Tomotherapy for head and neck cancer as assessed by MVCTs

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 50-55

  Belli, Maria Luisa ^a   Zerbetto, Flavia ^a   Raso, Roberta ^a   Chiara, Anna ^a   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^a   Di Muzio, Nadia ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a   Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Dell'Oca, Italo ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; IGRT; Lymphnodes

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84930753411     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2015.01.020     Document Type: Article

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