Clinical assessment of three-dimensional ultrasound prostate localization for external beam radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4710-4717

  Orton, Nigel P ^a   Jaradat, Hazim A ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICS; UROLOGY;

CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTRAFRACTION MOTION; PATIENT LOCALIZATION; PROSTATE LOCALIZATION; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 33845324131     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2388153     Document Type: Article

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