Influence of bladder and rectal volume on spatial variability of a bladder tumor during radical radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 835-841

  Pos, Floris J ^a   Koedooder, Kees ^a   Hulshof, Maarten C C M ^a   Van Tienhoven, Geertjan ^a   González González, Dionisio ^a   Koedooder, C ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Conformal radiotherapy; Organ motion; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PLANNING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; SCORING SYSTEM; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; MOVEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037359772     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)04158-5     Document Type: Article

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