A multi-institutional clinical trial of rectal dose reduction via injected polyethylene-glycol hydrogel during intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer: Analysis of dosimetric outcomes

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-87

  Song, Danny Y ^a   Herfarth, Klaus K ^b   Uhl, Matthias ^b   Eble, Michael J ^c   Pinkawa, Michael ^c   Van Triest, Baukelien ^d   Kalisvaart, Robin ^d   Weber, Damien C ^e   Miralbell, Raymond ^e   DeWeese, Theodore L ^a   Ford, Eric C ^f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODS AND MATERIALS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PROSTATE CANCERS; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; TARGET DEFINITIONS;

DISEASES; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGELS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

UROLOGY;

MACROGOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; HYDROGEL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84881369776     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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