Transabdominal ultrasonography, computed tomography and electronic portal imaging for 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 183, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 610-616

  Jereczek Fossa, Barbara Alicja ^a,c   Cattani, Federica ^a   Garibaldi, Cristina ^a   Zerini, Dario ^a   Cambria, Raffaella ^a   Boboc, Genoveva Ionela ^a   Valenti, Marco ^a   Kowalczyk, Anna ^b   Vavassori, Andrea ^a   Ivaldi, Giovanni Battista ^a   Ciocca, Mario ^a   Matei, Deliu Victor ^a   De Cobelli, Ottavio ^a,c   Orecchia, Roberto ^a,c  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 D conformal radiotherapy; Computed Tomography; Electronic portal imaging; Prostate cancer; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 36248976981     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-1702-5     Document Type: Article

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