Initial experience with ultrasound localization for positioning prostate cancer patients for external beam radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1130-1138

  Serago, Christopher F ^a   Chungbin, Suzanne J ^b   Buskirk, Steven J ^a   Ezzell, Gary A ^b   Collie, A Craig ^a   Vora, Sujay A ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Prostate cancer; Quality assurance; Radiotherapy; Ultrasound positioning system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

DISPLACEMENT; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER CAPACITY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; SKIN; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036680467     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)02826-2     Document Type: Article

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