Evaluations of an adaptive planning technique incorporating dose feedback in image-guided radiotherapy of prostate cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6362-6370

  Liu, Han ^a   Wu, Qiuwen ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive radiation therapy; image guided radiation therapy; intensity modulated radiation therapy; inter fraction motion; prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DISEASES; UROLOGY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTER-FRACTION MOTION; PROSTATE CANCERS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 82755181883     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3658567     Document Type: Article

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