Prospective longitudinal assessment of parotid gland function using dynamic quantitative pertechnate scintigraphy and estimation of dose-response relationship of parotid-sparing radiotherapy in head-neck cancers.

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Published in Radiat Oncol on March 15, 2015

Authors

Tejpal Gupta1,2, Chandni Hotwani3, Sadhana Kannan4, Zubin Master5, Venkatesh Rangarajan6, Vedang Murthy7, Ashwini Budrukkar8, Sarbani Ghosh-Laskar9, Jai Prakash Agarwal10

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. tejpalgupta@rediffmail.com.
2: Department of Epidemiology & Clinical Trials Unit - Clinical Research Secretariat, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. tejpalgupta@rediffmail.com.
3: Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. drchandni.h@gmail.com.
4: Department of Epidemiology & Clinical Trials Unit - Clinical Research Secretariat, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. skannan@actrec.gov.in.
5: Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. masterzubin@gmail.com.
6: Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. drvrangarajan@gmail.com.
7: Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. vedangmurthy@gmail.com.
8: Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. ashwini.budrukkar@gmail.com.
9: Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. sarbanilaskar@gmail.com.
10: Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. agarwaljp@tmc.gov.in.

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