Set-up error in supine-positioned patients immobilized with two different modalities during conformal radiotherapy of prostate cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-141

  Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Reni, Michele ^b   Bolognesi, Angelo ^b   Bonini, Antonio ^b   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a  

^a Servizio di Fisica Sanitaria   (Italy)

^b Servizio di Radiochemioterapia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Immobilization; Set up accuracy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMOBILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUPINE POSITION;

HUMANS; MALE; PORTAL SYSTEM; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032427052     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(98)00127-3     Document Type: Article

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