Investigation of the dosimetric accuracy of the isocenter shifting method in prostate cancer patients with and without hip prostheses

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5221-5227

  Hwang, Andrew B ^a   Kinsey, Erica ^b   Xia, Ping ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hip prosthesis; Image guided radiation therapy; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

EFFECTIVE DEPTH; HIGH-DENSITY MATERIALS; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE POSITION; PROSTATE VOLUME; TARGET VOLUMES; TREATMENT PLANS;

HIP PROSTHESES;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 70350743450     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3245882     Document Type: Article

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