MRI-guided prostate radiation therapy planning: Investigation of dosimetric accuracy of MRI-based dose planning

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 330-334

  Lambert, Jonathan ^a   Greer, Peter B ^a,b   Menk, Fred ^a   Patterson, Jackie ^b   Parker, Joel ^b   Dahl, Kara ^b   Gupta, Sanjiv ^b   Capp, Anne ^a,b   Wratten, Chris ^a,b   Tang, Colin ^b   Kumar, Mahesh ^b   Dowling, Jason ^c   Hauville, Sarah ^a   Hughes, Cynthia ^d   Fisher, Kristen ^d   Lau, Peter ^d   Denham, James W ^a,b   Salvado, Olivier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Australian E Health Research Centre   (Australia)

^d Hunter Imaging Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electron density; Prostate cancer; Radiotherapy treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BULK DENSITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952454508     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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