Reproducibility of the bladder shape and bladder shape changes during filling

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2590-2597

  Lotz, Heidi T ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^a   Betgen, Anja ^a   Pos, Floris ^a   Lebesque, Joos V ^a   Remeijer, Peter ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Bladder shape; Image guided radiotherapy; Organ motion; Organ shape modeling; Urinary inflow rate

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; FILLING; FORECASTING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY;

BLADDER CANCERS; BLADDER SHAPE; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INFLOW RATE; ORGAN MOTION; SHAPE MODEL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CAPACITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMALL INTESTINE; URINE FLOW RATE;

EID: 23944465890     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1992207     Document Type: Article

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