Optimized intensity-modulated arc therapy for prostate cancer treatment

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 379-384

  Lijun, Ma ^a   Yu, Cedric X ^a   Earl, Matthew ^a   Holmes, Tim ^a   Sarfaraz, Mehrdad ^a   Li, X Allen ^a   Shepard, David ^a   Amin, Pradip ^a   Dibiase, Steven ^a   Suntharalingam, Mohan ^a   Mansfield, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc delivery; Intensity modulated arc therapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Multileaf collimator; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0035924238     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.1039     Document Type: Article

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