Improving plan quality and consistency by standardization of dose constraints in prostate cancer patients treated with cyberknife

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 162-172

  Descovich, Martina ^a   Carrara, Mauro ^b   Morlino, Sara ^b   Pinnaduwage, Dilini S ^a   Saltiel, Daniel ^a   Pouliot, Jean ^a   Nash, Marc B ^a   Pignoli, Emanuele ^b   Valdagni, Riccardo ^b   Roach III, Mack ^a   Gottschalk, Alexander R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dose constraints; Plan optimization; prostate; Stereotactic body radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; RECTUM; STANDARD;

HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84884140098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v14i5.4333     Document Type: Article

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