Dose variation during hypofractionated image-guided radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Planned versus delivered

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 162-167

  Murthy, Vedang ^a   Shukla, Pragya ^a   Adurkar, Pranjal ^a   Master, Zubin ^a   Mahantshetty, Umesh ^a   Shrivastava, Shyam K ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Dose reconstruction; hypofractionation; image guided radiotherapy; prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PROSTATE; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TARGET ORGAN; TOMOTHERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 79960789575     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.82920     Document Type: Article

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