Modelling the variation in rectal dose due to inter-fraction rectal wall deformation in external beam prostate treatments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 5055-5074

  Booth, Jeremy ^a,b   Zavgorodni, Sergei ^b,c,d  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME (CTV); PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL WALL DEFORMATION;

DRUG DOSAGE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; RECTUM DISEASE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27144438248     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/21/008     Document Type: Article

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