Physics aspects of prostate tomotherapy: Planning optimization and image-guidance issues

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1309-1316

  Fiorino, Claudio ^a,c   Alongi, Filippo ^a   Broggi, Sara ^a   Mauro Cattaneo, Giovanni ^a   Cozzarini, Cesare ^a   Di Muzio, Nadia ^a   Maggiulli, Eleonora ^a   Mangili, Paola ^a   Perna, Lucia ^a   Valdagni, Riccardo ^b   Fazio, Ferruccio ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a  

^a Divisione di Medicina II   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c Medical Physics   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE;

HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 51049121169     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860802266755     Document Type: Article

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