Migration of intraprostatic fiducial markers and its influence on the matching quality in external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-47

  Delouya, Guila ^a   Carrier, Jean François ^a   Béliveau Nadeau, Dominic ^a   Donath, David ^a   Taussky, Daniel ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CT scan; Fiducial markers; Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; FIDUCIAL MARKER MIGRATION; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GOLD RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953958629     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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