The impact of varying volumes in rectal balloons on rectal dose sparing in conformal radiation therapy of prostate cancer: A prospective three-dimensional analysis

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 181, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 709-716

  Hille, Andrea ^a,b   Schmidberger, Heinz ^a   Töws, Nadja ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth ^a   Vorwerk, Hilke ^a   Hess, Clemens F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical target volume; Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy; Rectal balloon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALLOON; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RECTUM BALLOON; RECTUM INJURY; RISK REDUCTION; SEMINAL VESICLE;

BALLOON DILATATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27544435892     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-005-1443-2     Document Type: Article

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