Interfraction prostate rotation determined from in-room computerized tomography images

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-194

  Owen, Rebecca ^a,b,c   Kron, Tomas ^b   Foroudi, Farshad ^b   Milner, Alvin ^b   Cox, Jennifer ^c   Duchesne, Gillian ^b  

^a Mater Radiation Oncology Centre   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiducial markers; In room CT; Prostate rotation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOM ERROR; RECTUM; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955465805     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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