In vivo real-time rectal wall dosimetry for prostate radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3859-3871

  Hardcastle, Nicholas ^a,d   Cutajar, Dean L ^a   Metcalfe, Peter E ^a   Lerch, Michael L F ^a   Perevertaylo, Vladimir L ^b   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a,c   Rosenfeld, Anatoly B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b SPA BIT ^*  (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE REDUCTION; EXTERNAL BEAM; FRACTION SIZE; IN-VIVO; INCIDENT ANGLES; MOS-FET; MOSFETS; PATH LENGTH; PHOTON BEAMS; PLANNING SYSTEMS; PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY; PROSTATE TREATMENT; REAL TIME; RECTAL WALL; REPRODUCIBILITIES; TREATMENT PLANS; WATER EQUIVALENT;

BALLOONS; DOSIMETRY; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

MOSFET DEVICES;

WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 77957935151     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/13/019     Document Type: Article

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