IMRT of prostate cancer : A comparison of fluence optimization with sequential segmentation and direct step-and-shoot optimization

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 379-383

  Treutwein, Marius ^a   Hipp, Matthias ^b   Kölbl, Oliver ^b   Bogner, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Direct machine parameter optimization; Direct step and shoot; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIRECT MACHINE PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; DIRECT STEP AND SHOOT OPTIMIZATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PARAMETER; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT TIME;

AGED; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67149136386     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1950-7     Document Type: Article

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