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Volume 73, Issue 5 , Pages 1397-1403 , 1 April 2009

Designing Targets for Elective Nodal Irradiation in Lung Cancer Radiotherapy: A Planning Study

Lucyna Kepka, M.D.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Daniel Tatro
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Jean M. Moran, Ph.D.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Leslie E. Quint, M.D.
- Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
James A. Hayman, M.D.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Randall K. Ten Haken, Ph.D.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Feng-Ming Kong, M.D., Ph.D.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Reprint requests to: Feng-Ming Kong, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, UH-B2C490, Box 0010, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Fax: (734) 763-7370

Received 29 April 2008 ,Revised 14 July 2008 ,Accepted 19 July 2008.

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