Consideration of the likely benefit from implementation of prostate image-guided radiotherapy using current margin sizes: A radiobiological analysis

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1017, 2012, Pages 1263-1271

  Tudor, George Samuel John ^a,b   Rimmer, Y L ^b,c   Nguyen, T B ^a   Cowen, M A ^a   Thomas, S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c WEST SUFFOLK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOBIOLOGY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866089003     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/27924223     Document Type: Article

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