Effectiveness of Using Fewer Implanted Fiducial Markers for Prostate Target Alignment

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1283-1289

  Kudchadker, Rajat J ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Yu, Zhiqian H ^a   Johnson, Jennifer L ^a   Zhang, Lifei ^a   Zhang, Yongbin ^a   Amos, Richard A ^a   Nakanishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Ochiai, Atsushi ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiducial marker; Prostate cancer; Proton therapy; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CT SCAN; FIDUCIAL MARKER; FIDUCIALS; GOLD STANDARDS; ORGAN DEFORMATION; PRE-TREATMENT; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE;

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TARGETS;

ALIGNMENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BONE AND BONES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GOLD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67649532156     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.02.033     Document Type: Article

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