Ultrasound-based stereotactic guidance in prostate cancer - Quantification of organ motion and set-up errors in external beam radiation therapy

Computer Aided Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 289-295

  Lattanzi, J ^a   McNeeley, S ^a   Donnelly, S ^a   Palacio, E ^a   Hanlon, A ^a   Schultheiss, T E ^a   Hanks, G E ^a  

^a Department of Medicine Rutgers Health Community Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Organ motion; Prostate cancer; Radiation therapy; Set up; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERROR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TARGET ORGAN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033753216     PISSN: 10929088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0150(2000)5     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Measurement of prostate movement over the course of routine radiotherapy using implanted markers
2. Analysis of prostate and seminal vesicle motion: Implications for treatment planning
3. Prostate motion during standard radiotherapy as assessed by fiducial markers
4. Results of 3D conformal radiotherapy in the treatment of localized prostate cancer
5. Dose escalation with 3D conformal treatment: Five year outcomes, treatment optimization, and future directions
6. Control, correction and modeling of setup errors and organ motion
7. Daily CT localization for correcting portal errors in the treatment of prostate cancer
8. Ultrasound-based stereotactic guidance of precision conformal external beam radiation therapy in clinically localized prostate cancer
9. A comparison of daily CT localization to a daily ultrasound-based system in prostate cancer
10. A method of incorporating organ motion uncertainties into three-dimensional conformal treatment plans
11. Variation in prostate position quantification and implications for three-dimensional conformal treatment planning
12. External beam radiotherapy dose response of prostate cancer
13. Defining treatment margins for six field conformal irradiation of localized prostate cancer
14. Evaluation of changes in the size and location of the prostate, seminal vesicles, bladder, and rectum during a course of external beam radiation therapy
15. Inclusion of geometric uncertainties in radiotherapy treatment planning by means of coverage probability
16. Treatment planning issues related to prostate movement in response to differential filling of the rectum and bladder
17. Patient setup optimization for external conformal radiotherapy
18. Conformal external radiotherapy of prostatic carcinoma: Requirements and experimental results
19. Quantification of organ motion during conformal radiotherapy of the prostate by three dimensional image registration
20. Immobilization and positioning patients for radiotherapy
21. Clinical usability of a transabdominal ultrasound system for localization of the prostate: Preliminary results
22. Adaptive modification of treatment planning to minimize the deleterious effects of treatment setup errors
23. Quantification and predictors of prostate position variability in 50 patients evaluated with multiple CT scans during conformal therapy
24. Dose escalation with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy affects the outcome in prostate cancer