An in-silico quality assurance study of contouring target volumes in thoracic tumors within a cooperative group setting

Introduction: Target delineation variability is a significant technical impediment in multi-institutional trials which employ intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), as there is a real potential for clinically meaningful variances that can impact the outcomes in clinical trials. The goal of this st...

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Main Authors: Hesham Elhalawani, Baher Elgohari, Timothy A. Lin, Abdallah S.R. Mohamed, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, Fran Laurie, Kenneth Ulin, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Thomas Guerrero, Emma B. Holliday, Gregory Russo, Abhilasha Patel, William Jones, Gary V. Walker, Musaddiq Awan, Mehee Choi, Roi Dagan, Omar Mahmoud, Anna Shapiro, Feng-Ming (Spring) Kong, Daniel Gomez, Jing Zeng, Roy Decker, Femke O.B. Spoelstra, Laurie E. Gaspar, Lisa A. Kachnic, Charles R. Thomas, Jr., Paul Okunieff, Clifton D. Fuller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-02-01
Series:Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405630818301137