High-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy consistently results in high quality dosimetry

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 543-548

  White, Evan C ^a   Kamrava, Mitchell R ^a   Demarco, John ^a   Park, Sang June ^a   Wang, Pin Chieh ^a   Kayode, Oluwatosin ^a   Steinberg, Michael L ^a   Demanes, D Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER WALL; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CT IMAGING; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; HDR BRACHYTHERAPY; HIGH DOSE RATE; HIGH QUALITY; MEAN DOSE; NORMAL TISSUE; ORGANS AT RISKS; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE SIZE; PROSTATE ULTRASOUND; SEMINAL VESICLE; TARGET COVERAGE; TARGET VOLUMES;

DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

UROLOGY;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY IMPLANT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HIGH DOSE RATE PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE VOLUME; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; URETHRA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; RISK; SEMINAL VESICLES; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; URETHRA;

EID: 84872199894     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.03.035     Document Type: Article

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