Evaluation of a new method for calculation of cumulative doses in the rectum wall using repeat CT scans

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 388-395

  Kvinnsland, Yngve ^a   Muren, Ludvig Paul ^b   Dahl, Olav ^b  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER CANCER; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3042796172     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860410031381     Document Type: Article

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