Evaluation of the dosimetric impact of interfractional anatomical variations on prostate proton therapy using daily in-room CT images

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4623-4633

  Wang, Yi ^a   Efstathiou, Jason A ^a   Sharp, Gregory C ^a   Lu, Hsiao Ming ^a   Frank Ciernik, I ^b,c   Trofimov, Alexei V ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DESSAU MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

daily in room serial CT; deformable registration; interfractional organ motion; prostate cancer; proton therapy

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON BEAMS; UROLOGY;

ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; ORGAN MOTION; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROTON THERAPY; REGISTRATION ACCURACY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961055443     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3604152     Document Type: Article

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