Dosimetric effects of the prone and supine positions on image guided localized prostate cancer radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-76

  Liu, Bei ^a   Lerma, Fritz A ^a   Patel, Shilpen ^a   Amin, Pradip ^a   Feng, Yuanming ^a   Yi, Byong Yong ^a   Yu, Cedric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

IGRT IMRT; Prone; Prostate cancer; Supine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; SUPINE POSITION;

HUMANS; MALE; PRONE POSITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 45849098758     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.11.034     Document Type: Article

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