An automatic CT-guided adaptive radiation therapy technique by online modification of multileaf collimator leaf positions for prostate cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 154-163

  Court, Laurence E ^a,b   Dong, Lei ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Cheung, Rex ^a   Bonnen, Mark D ^a   O'Daniel, Jennifer ^a   Wang, He ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Kuban, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided radiation therapy; IMRT; Prostate adaptive radiation therapy; Prostate radiation therapy; Slice by slice registration; Target localization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPY (ART); MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS (MLC); PROSTATE CANCER; SEMINAL VESICLES (SV);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEMINAL VESICLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 17844400938     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.09.045     Document Type: Article

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