The radiation doses to erectile tissues defined with magnetic resonance imaging after intensity-modulated radiation therapy or iodine-125 brachytherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1383-1391

  Buyyounouski, Mark K ^a   Horwitz, Eric M ^a   Uzzo, Robert G ^a   Price, Robert A ^a   McNeeley, Shawn W ^a   Azizi, Daniel ^a   Hanlon, Alexandra L ^a   Milestone, Bart N ^a   Pollack, Alan ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Prostatic neoplasm; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ERECTILE TISSUES; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

IODINE 125;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NIDATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3242674520     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.01.042     Document Type: Article

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