Dose distribution in 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Comparison of two treatment techniques (six coplanar fields and two dynamic arcs)

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 294-302

  Jereczek Fossa, Barbara Alicja ^a,f   Cattani, Federica ^b   D'Onofrio, Alberto ^a   Cambria, Raffaella ^b   Kowalczyk, Anna ^a,d   Corallo, Anna ^e   Vavassori, Andrea ^a   Zerini, Dario ^a   Ivaldi, Giovanni Battista ^a   DeCobelli, Ottavio ^c,f   Orecchia, Roberto ^a,f  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*

^b Medical Physics

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiotherapy; Bladder; Dose volume histograms; Dynamic conformal arcs; Prostate cancer; Rectum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CALCULATION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR HEAD; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMUR HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLES; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33845334205     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

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