Strategy for Online Correction of Rotational Organ Motion for Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1608-1617

  Rijkhorst, Erik Jan ^a   van Herk, Marcel ^a   Lebesque, Joos V ^a   Sonke, Jan Jakob ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geometric uncertainties; IMRT; Margins; Prostate cancer; Rotations

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; RADIOTHERAPY;

GEOMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; PROSTATE CANCER; ROTATIONAL ORGAN MOTION;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; ROTATION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36148968407     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.08.042     Document Type: Article

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