Is there an advantage in designing adapted, patient-specific PTV margins in intensity modulated proton beam therapy for prostate cancer?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 881-888

  Góra, Joanna ^a,c   Stock, Markus ^a,b   Lütgendorf Caucig, Carola ^b   Georg, Dietmar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c EBG MedAustron GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CONE BEAM; COREGISTERED; INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPIES; ORGAN MOTION; ORGANS AT RISKS; PLANNING CT; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; TARGET COVERAGE; TARGET MOTIONS;

DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROTON BEAMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME MARGIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; ORGANS AT RISK; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTON THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84873289366     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.05.046     Document Type: Article

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