Single-arc volumetric-modulated arc therapy can provide dose distributions equivalent to fixed-beam intensity-modulated radiation therapy for prostatic irradiation with seminal vesicle and/or lymph node involvement

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1011, 2012, Pages 231-236

  Fontenot, Jonas D ^a,b   King, M L ^a,b   Johnson, S A ^a,b   Wood, C G ^a,b   Price, M J ^a,b   Lo, K K ^a,b  

^a MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; SINGLE ARC VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

GENITAL NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SEMINAL VESICLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857967563     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/94843998     Document Type: Article

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