Evaluation of a contour-alignment technique for CT-guided prostate radiotherapy: An intra- and interobserver study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 412-418

  Court, Laurence E ^a   Dong, Lei ^a   Taylor, Noah ^a   Ballo, Matthew ^a   Kitamura, Kei ^a,b   Lee, Andrew K ^a   O'Daniel, Jennifer ^a   White, R Allen ^a   Cheung, Rex ^a   Kuban, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT guided procedure; Prostate localization; Radiotherapy; Setup uncertainty; Target localization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DOSE ESCALATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR SYSTEMS;

ONCOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2442551959     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2003.10.023     Document Type: Article

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