Online image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer: How much improvement can we expect? A theoretical assessment of clinical benefits and potential dose escalation by improving precision and accuracy of radiation delivery

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1602-1610

  Ghilezan, Michel ^a   Yan, Di ^a   Liang, Jian ^a   Jaffray, David ^b   Wong, John ^a   Martinez, Alvaro ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Onboard cone beam CT; Online image guided IMRT; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE (EUD); IMAGE-GUIDED INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IG-IMRT); PLANNING TARGET VOLUME (PTV);

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLADDER WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RECTUM; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 10044223321     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.07.709     Document Type: Article

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