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A strategy for the use of image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) on linear accelerators and its impact on treatment margins for prostate cancer patients.
Nairz, O; Merz, F; Deutschmann, H; Kopp, P; Schöller, H; Zehentmayr, F; Wurstbauer, K; Kametriser, G; Sedlmayer, F;
Strahlenther Onkol. 2008; 184(12):663-667
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Deutschmann Heinz
Sedlmayer Felix
Wurstbauer Karl
Zehentmayr Franz

Abstract

In external beam radiotherapy of prostate cancer, the consideration of various systematic error types leads to wide treatment margins compromising normal tissue tolerance. We investigated if systematic set-up errors can be reduced by a set of initial image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) sessions.

Useful keywords (using NLM MeSH Indexing)

Algorithms

Humans

Male

Models, Statistical

Particle Accelerators*

Prostatic Neoplasms/radiography*

Prostatic Neoplasms/radiotherapy*

Radiotherapy Dosage

Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted

Radiotherapy, Conformal/standards*

Retrospective Studies

Software

Time Factors

Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods*

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