The effect of positional realignment on dose delivery to the prostate and organs-at-risk for 3DCRT

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-6

  Wang, Zhou ^a   Rajagopalan, Balu ^a   Malhotra, Harish K ^a   Kuettel, Michael R ^a   Podgorsak, Matthew B ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiotherapy; Organ motion; Prostate carcinoma; Ultrasound guidance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND;

CARCINOMA; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33847046277     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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