Radiotherapy treatment planning of prostate cancer using magnetic resonance imaging alone

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-216

  Lee, Young K ^a   Bollet, Marc ^a   Charles Edwards, Geoffrey ^a   Flower, Maggie A ^a   Leach, Martin O ^a   McNair, Helen ^a   Moore, Elizabeth ^a   Rowbottom, Carl ^b   Webb, Steve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Electron density bulk assignment; Magnetic resonance imaging; Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0037297702     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(02)00440-1     Document Type: Article

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