Evaluation of image-guidance strategies with helical tomotherapy for localised prostate cancer

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 220-228

  Yeung, Timothy Pc ^a   Yartsev, Slav ^a   Rodrigues, George ^a   Bauman, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

helical tomotherapy; image guidance; margins; megavoltage CT; prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; TOMOTHERAPY;

HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955056859     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2011.02255.x     Document Type: Article

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