Intra- and inter-radiation therapist reproducibility of daily isocenter verification using prostatic fiducial markers

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Ullman, Karen L ^a   Ning, Holly ^a   Susil, Robert C ^b   Ayele, Asna ^a   Jocelyn, Lucresse ^a   Havelos, Jan ^a   Guion, Peter ^a   Xie, Huchen ^a   Li, Guang ^a   Arora, Barbara C ^a   Cannon, Angela ^a   Miller, Robert W ^a   Coleman, C Norman ^a   Camphausen, Kevin ^a   Ménard, Cynthia ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36049014487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-1-2     Document Type: Article

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