Does prone positioning reduce small bowel dose in pelvic radiation with intensity-modulated radiotherapy for gynecologic cancer?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 230-238

  Adli, Mustafa ^a   Mayr, Nina A ^a   Kaiser, Heather S ^b   Skwarchuk, Mark W ^b   Meeks, Sanford L ^b   Mardirossian, George ^a   Paulino, Arnold C ^c   Montebello, Joseph F ^a   Gaston, Robert C ^a   Sorosky, Joel I ^b   Buatti, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel complications; Gynecologic malignancies; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Normal tissue dose; Patient positioning; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; GYNECOLOGY; IRRADIATION; TUMORS;

INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BODY POSTURE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARGE INTESTINE; LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SMALL INTESTINE; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS TUMOR; VAGINA;

EID: 0042566067     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(03)00409-7     Document Type: Article

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