Geometric and dosimetric evaluations of an online image-guidance strategy for 3D-CRT of prostate cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1596-1609

  Wu, Qiuwen ^a   Ivaldi, Giovanni ^a,b   Liang, Jian ^a   Lockman, David ^a   Yan, Di ^a   Martinez, Alvaro ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiation therapy; Image registration; Image guided radiation therapy; Margins; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

3D CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; MARGINS; PROSTATE CANCER;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33644664353     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.12.029     Document Type: Article

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