The effect of treatment positioning on normal tissue dose in patients with prostate cancer treated with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-19

  Zelefsky, Michael J ^a   Happersett, Laura ^a   Leibel, Steven A ^a   Burman, Chandra M ^a   Schwartz, Lawrence ^a   Dicker, Adam P ^a   Kutcher, Gerald J ^a   Fuks, Zvi ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER WALL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; SMALL INTESTINE;

HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0031040534     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(96)00460-9     Document Type: Article

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