Investigation of dose perturbations and the radiographic visibility of potential fiducials for proton radiation therapy of the prostate

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5287-5302

  Huang, Jessie Y ^a,b   Newhauser, Wayne D ^a,b   Zhu, X Ronald ^b   Lee, Andrew K ^b   Kudchadker, Rajat J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTON BEAMS; CLINICAL UTILITY; CT IMAGE; CT SCANNERS; FIDUCIAL MARKER; FIDUCIALS; IMAGE GUIDANCES; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROTON RADIATION THERAPY; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; TARGET POSITIONING; TARGET VOLUMES; THERAPEUTIC DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; PROTONS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HUMAN; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; STANDARD;

ARTIFACTS; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79961060288     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/16/014     Document Type: Article

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