Modeling set-up error by daily MVCT for prostate adjuvant treatment delivered in 20 fractions: Implications for the assessment of the optimal correction strategies

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 246-252

  Broggi, Sara ^a   Cozzarini, Cesare ^a   Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Maggiulli, Eleonora ^a   Alongi, Filippo ^a   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^a   Di Muzio, Nadia ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a  

^a Neurological Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correction strategies; Image guided radiotherapy; Set up errors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEGAVOLTAGE COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TOMOTHERAPY;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 70350492288     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.08.029     Document Type: Article

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