Conformal irradiation of concave-shaped PTVs in the treatment of prostate cancer by simple 1D intensity-modulated beams

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-58

  Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Broggi, Sara ^a   Corletto, Daniela ^a   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a  

^a Servizio di Fisica Sanitaria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological models; Conformal radiotherapy; Intensity modulation; Optimization; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMUR HEAD; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLES; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0034177247     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00140-7     Document Type: Article

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