Image-guided radiotherapy of bladder cancer: Bladder volume variation and its relation to margins

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 307-313

  Muren, Ludvig Paul ^a   Redpath, Anthony Thomas ^b   Lord, Hannah ^b   McLaren, Duncan ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Bladder volume variation; Conformal radiotherapy; Image guided radiotherapy; Treatment margins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CAPACITY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548383965     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.06.014     Document Type: Article

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