Dosimetric effects of patient rotational setup errors on prostate IMRT treatments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5321-5331

  Fu, Weihua ^a   Yang, Yong ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Heron, Dwight E ^a   Huq, M Saiful ^a   Yue, Ning J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTESIAN AXES; COUCH ANGLES; SETUP ERRORS; TUMOR CONTROL;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PROBABILITY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAM; DOSIMETRY; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; ERROR; EVALUATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; ROTATION; ROTATIONAL SETUP ERROR; SEMINAL VESICLE; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY;

BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749606407     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/20/016     Document Type: Article

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