Prostate volumes and organ movement defined by serial computerized tomographic scans during three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy

Radiation Oncology Investigations

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 187-194

  Roach III, Mack ^a,b   Faillace Akazawa, Pamela ^a   Malfatti, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Organ movement; Prostate cancer; Three dimensional conformal radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PELVIC BONES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030831979     PISSN: 10657541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6823(1997)5:4<187::AID-ROI4>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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