Dosimetric and geometric evaluation of a hybrid strategy of offline adaptive planning and online image guidance for prostate cancer radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5045-5062

  Liu, Han ^a   Wu, Qiuwen ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; CENTER-OF-MASS; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; HYBRID STRATEGIES; HYPOFRACTIONATION; IMAGE-GUIDED; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; OFFLINE; ONLINE IMAGES; OPTIMAL NUMBER; ORGANS AT RISKS; PROSTATE CANCERS; RE-PLANNING; REGISTRATION METHODS; SEMINAL VESICLE; TARGET VOLUMES; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PROCESS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RISK;

HUMANS; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79961061799     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/15/024     Document Type: Article

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