Dosimetric impact of image-guided 3D conformal radiation therapy of prostate cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 3083-3101

  Schaly, B ^a,b   Bauman, G S ^a,b   Song, W ^a,b   Battista, J J ^a,b   Van Dyk, J ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TISSUE; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY (CRT); DOSIMETRIC IMPACT; INTER-FRACTION TUMOUR; RADIATION TREATMENT;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

ARTIFACTS; BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 21344470907     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/13/008     Document Type: Article

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