The effect of delineation method and observer variability on bladder dose-volume histograms for prostate intensity modulated radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 479-485

  Rosewall, Tara ^a,d   Bayley, Andrew J ^d   Chung, Peter ^a   Le, Lisa W ^b   Xie, Jason ^d   Baxi, Siddhartha ^d   Catton, Charles N ^d   Currie, Geoffrey ^a,c   Wheat, Janelle ^a,c   Milosevic, Michael ^d  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

External beam; IMRT; Normal tissue; Observer error; Organ at risk; Organ definition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER WALL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 81855218606     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.06.039     Document Type: Article

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