Internal organ motion in prostate cancer patients treated in prone and supine treatment position

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 237-248

  Stroom, Joep C ^a   Koper, Peter C M ^a   Korevaaar, Gert A ^a   Van Os, Marjolein ^a   Janssen, Marjolein ^a   De Boer, Hans C J ^a   Levendag, Peter C ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Internal organ motion; Planning margin; Prostate cancer; Random systematic variation; Time trends

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; PRONE POSITION; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPINE POSITION; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0032976707     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00061-4     Document Type: Article

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