Online adaptive replanning method for prostate radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1561-1572

  Ahunbay, Ergun E ^a   Peng, Cheng ^a   Holmes, Shannon ^a   Godley, Andrew ^a   Lawton, Colleen ^a   Li, X Allen ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiotherapy; Image guided radiotherapy; Online replanning; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; APERTURE MORPHING; CT IMAGE; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; PATIENT REPOSITIONING; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY; RE-PLANNING; REOPTIMIZATION; TARGET COVERAGE; TIME FRAME; WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION;

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ALGORITHM; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMUR HEAD; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PUBIC BONE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUM; STANDARD; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMUR HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PUBIC BONE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 77955506120     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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