Evaluation of changes in the size and location of the prostate, seminal vesicles, bladder, and rectum during a course of external beam radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1321-1329

  Roeske, John C ^a   Forman, Jeffrey D ^b   Mesina, Carmen F ^b   He, Tony ^b   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a   Fontenla, Ernesto ^a   Vijayakumar, S ^a   Chen, George T Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coformal therapy; Image registration; Prostate motion

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER;

BLADDER; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0028784185     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(95)00225-1     Document Type: Article

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