Potential for Higher Treatment Failure in Obese Patients: Correlation of Elevated Body Mass Index and Increased Daily Prostate Deviations From the Radiation Beam Isocenters in an Analysis of 1,465 Computed Tomographic Images

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-55

  Wong, James R ^a   Gao, Zhanrong ^a   Merrick, Scott ^a   Wilson, Paula ^a   Uematsu, Minoru ^b   Woo, Kevin ^a   Cheng, Chee Wai ^a  

^a MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Uematsu Atsuchi Serendipity Oncology Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

IGRT; Obese; Shift CT on rails

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR DIRECTIONS; BIOCHEMICAL FAILURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CT SCAN; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; IGRT; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; ISOCENTERS; OBESE; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PROSTATE CANCERS; RADIATION BEAMS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SHIFT CT-ON-RAILS; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG CORRELATION; TARGET VOLUMES; TISSUE THICKNESS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT MODALITY;

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC REACTORS; NUTRITION; RADIOTHERAPY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; OBESITY; PELVIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINAL VESICLES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 68649124779     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.07.049     Document Type: Article

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