Planning Target Volume Margin Evaluation and Critical Structure Sparing for Rectal Cancer Patients Treated Prone on a Bellyboard

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Cranmer Sargison, Gavin ^a   Kundapur, Vijayananda ^a   Park Somers, Eileen ^a   Andreas, Joe ^a   Vachhrajani, Haresh ^a   Sidhu, Narinder P ^a,b  

^a SASKATCHEWAN CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bellyboard; IMRT; PTV margin; Rectum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PELVIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRONE POSITION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84873079385     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: 14332981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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