An off-line strategy for constructing a patient-specific planning target volume in adaptive treatment process for prostate cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 289-302

  Yan, Di ^a   Lockman, David ^a   Brabbins, Donald ^a   Tyburski, Laura ^a   Martinez, Alvaro ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation therapy process; Conventional and IMRT dose distributions; Off line image feedback; Patient specific planning target volume; Prostate cancer treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHYSICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034255946     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00608-8     Document Type: Article

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