Impact on rectal dose from the use of a prostate immobilization and rectal localization device for patients receiving dose escalated 3D conformal radiation therapy

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 165-168

  Sanghani, Mona V ^a   Ching, Jane ^a   Schultz, Delray ^b   Cormack, Robert ^a   Loffredo, Marian ^a   McMahon, Elizabeth ^a   Beard, Clair ^a   D'Amico, Anthony V ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose escalation; Intrarectal balloon; Prostate cancer; Rectal toxicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3242714178     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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