A feasibility study of using conventional jaws to deliver IMRT plans in the treatment of prostate cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2147-2156

  Kim, Yongbok ^a   Verhey, Lynn J ^a   Xia, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

3D-CRT PLANS; DIRECT APERTURE OPTIMIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); MULTI LEAF COLLIMATOR (MLC) PLANS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER; COLLIMATOR; CONFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; JAW; MALE; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RECTUM; TARGET ORGAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34147144508     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/8/007     Document Type: Article

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