Effect of photon-beam energy on VMAT and IMRT treatment plan quality and dosimetric accuracy for advanced prostate cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 187, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 792-798

  Pasler, Marlies ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^b   Wirtz, Holger ^a   Lutterbach, Johannes ^a  

^a Lake Constance Radiation Oncology Center Singen Friedrichshafen   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Advanced prostate cancer; IMRT; VMAT

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; ORGANS AT RISK; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; PHOTONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84856236224     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-011-1150-0     Document Type: Article

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