Radiotherapy margin design with particular consideration of high curvature CTVs

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 684-697

  Herschtal, Alan ^a   Kron, Tomas ^a   Fox, Chris ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; IMRT; Margins; Prostate; Radiotherapy; Setup errors

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; IMRT; MARGINS; PROSTATE; SETUP ERRORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THERAPEUTIC ERROR;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 61349157876     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3070539     Document Type: Article

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