First report on prostate displacements immediately before and after treatment relative to the position during VMAT delivery

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1206-1208

  Nakagawa, Keiichi ^a   Shiraishi, Kenshiro ^a   Kida, Satoshi ^a   Haga, Akihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Kentaro ^a   Saegusa, Shigeki ^a   Terahara, Atsuro ^a   Itoh, Saori ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a   Yoda, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Elekta KK   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 70350784129     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841860903101190     Document Type: Letter

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