The Role of Seminal Vesicle Motion in Target Margin Assessment for Online Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 935-943

  Liang, Jian ^a   Wu, Qiuwen ^a   Yan, Di ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative dose; Image registration; Image guided radiation therapy; Margin; Prostate and seminal vesicles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; TARGETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; CUMULATIVE DOSE; HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMAGE MASKS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPIES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPIES; MARGIN; MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; ONLINE IMAGES; ORGAN MOTIONS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PROSTATE AND SEMINAL VESICLES; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE GLANDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPIES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 59649087394     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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