High dose three-dimensional conformal boost (3DCB) using an orthogonal diagnostic X-ray set-up for patients with gynecological malignancy: A new application of real-time tumor-tracking system

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-222

  Yamamoto, Ritsu ^a   Yonesaka, Akio ^b   Nishioka, Seiko ^b   Watari, Hidemichi ^a   Hashimoto, Takayuki ^b   Uchida, Daichi ^b   Taguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Nishioka, Takeshi ^b   Miyasaka, Kazuo ^b   Sakuragi, Noriaki ^a   Shirato, Hiroki ^b  

^a Div Pathophysiological Sci H   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Image guided radiotherapy; Intra fractional error; Real time tracking system; Set up error; Uterine cervix; Vagina

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUOROSCOPY; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 7944228276     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.08.006     Document Type: Article

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