Adaptive radiotherapy for invasive bladder cancer: A feasibility study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 862-868

  Pos, Floris J ^a   Hulshof, Maarten ^b   Lebesque, Joos ^a   Lotz, Heidi ^a   Van Tienhoven, Geertjan ^b   Moonen, Luc ^a   Remeijer, Peter ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Bladder cancer; Organ motion; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; BLADDER CANCER; ORGAN MOTION;

TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CAPACITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 31844453990     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.07.976     Document Type: Article

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