Monte Carlo dose verification of prostate patients treated with simultaneous integrated boost intensity modulated radiation therapy

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dogan, Nesrin ^a   Mihaylov, Ivaylo ^b   Wu, Yan ^a   Keall, Paul J ^c   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a   Hagan, Michael P ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 67649983179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-4-18     Document Type: Article

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