Spot scanning proton beam therapy for prostate cancer: Treatment planning technique and analysis of consequences of rotational and translational alignment errors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 428-434

  Meyer, Jeff ^a   Bluett, Jaques ^a   Amos, Richard ^a   Levy, Larry ^a   Choi, Seungtaek ^a   Nguyen, Quynh Nhu ^a   Zhu, X Ron ^a   Gillin, Michael ^a   Lee, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Prostate cancer; Protons; Spot scanning

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ERROR; ANTEROPOSTERIOR; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CONFORMAL COVERAGE; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER; NORMAL TISSUE; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE TREATMENT; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; RATIONAL PLANNING; ROBUST COVERAGES; SCATTERED BEAMS; SPOT SCANNING; TARGET VOLUMES; TISSUE DENSITY; TRANSLATIONAL ALIGNMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR SITE;

ALIGNMENT; DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; PLANNING; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING;

RANDOM ERRORS;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THERAPEUTIC ERROR; TREATMENT PLANNING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMUR HEAD; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY; ROTATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMUR HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; URINARY BLADDER;

PROTON;

EID: 79952157958     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.1696     Document Type: Article

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