Seminars in Radiation Oncology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 84-93 , April 2010

Adaptive Radiotherapy of Head and Neck Cancer

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 This work is supported by a grant from the Belgian Federation against Cancer (convention Number SCIE 2003-23FR), by a grant from the “Cancéropôle du Nord-Ouest (France),” by a grant (Painter) from the Région wallonne (Belgium), by the “Fonds J. Maisin” of the Université catholique de Louvain and by grants from the European Community (Biocare EC Research Program # LSHC-CT-2004-505785; Maestro EC project # LSHC-CT-2004-503564).

 The authors have no financial relationship with the organizations that sponsored the research.

 John A. Lee and Xavier Geets are postdoctoral fellows with the FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique).

 Financial support: Pierre Castadot is a research fellow with the FNRS (Fonds National de la recherche Scientifique).

PII: S1053-4296(09)00076-9

doi: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2009.11.002

Seminars in Radiation Oncology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 84-93 , April 2010

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