Imaging changes during therapy: Does it matter?

Imaging Decisions MRI

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-13

  Aubry, J F ^a   Pouliot, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose recalculation; Dose guided radiation therapy; In room imaging; Megavoltage cone beam CT

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 50449097594     PISSN: 14333317     EISSN: 16170830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1617-0830.2008.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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