A magnetic resonance imaging-based approach to quantify radiation-induced normal tissue injuries applied to trismus in head and neck cancer

Background and purpose: In this study we investigated the ability of textures from T1-weighted MRI scans post-contrast (T1wpost) to identify the critical muscle(s) for radiation-induced trismus. Materials and methods: The study included ten cases (Trismus: ≥Grade 1), and ten age-sex-tumor-location-a...

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Main Authors: Maria Thor, Neelam Tyagi, Vaios Hatzoglou, Aditya Apte, Ziad Saleh, Nadeem Riaz, Nancy Y. Lee, Joseph O. Deasy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405631616300264