Distinct effects of rectum delineation methods in 3D-confromal vs. IMRT treatment planning of prostate cancer

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a   Baier, Kurt ^a   Vordermark, Dirk ^a   Flentje, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845350578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-1-34     Document Type: Article

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