Bladder extension variability during pelvic external beam radiotherapy with a full or empty bladder>

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-167

  Pinkawa, Michael ^a   Asadpour, Branka ^a   Siluschek, Jaroslav ^a   Gagel, Bernd ^a   Piroth, Marc D ^a   Demirel, Cengiz ^a   Eble, Michael J ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Organ motion; Pelvic neoplasm; Prostate neoplasm; Radiotherapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER EMPTYING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; URINE;

EID: 34248648484     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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