Evaluation of the 'dose of the day' for IMRT prostate cancer patients derived from portal dose measurements and cone-beam CT

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 172-177

  Van Zijtveld, Mathilda ^a   Dirkx, Maarten ^a   Breuers, Marcel ^a   Kuipers, Ruud ^a   Heijmen, Ben ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Dose reconstruction; EPID; IMRT QA; In vivo dosimetry; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 77955715285     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.05.015     Document Type: Article

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