Dose delivered from Varian's CBCT to patients receiving IMRT for prostate cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2267-2276

  Wen, Ning ^a   Guan, Huaiqun ^a,b   Hammoud, Rabih ^a   Pradhan, Deepak ^a   Nurushev, T ^a   Li, Shidong ^a   Movsas, Benjamin ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; PATIENT MONITORING;

CONE BEAM CT (CBCT); PELVIC SCANS; PORTAL IMAGING; SIMULATION CT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY;

BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34147169864     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/8/015     Document Type: Article

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