Penile bulb sparing in prostate cancer radiotherapy : Dose analysis of an in-house MRI system to improve contouring.
F BöckelmannM HammonS LettmaierR FietkauChristoph BertF PutzPublished in: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] (2018)
MRI-based contouring and seven-field IMRT-based treatment planning achieved dose sparing to the PB. Whereas the comparison of MRI and CT contouring only relates to external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) sparing, considering EBRT and IBT shows the improvement in PB sparing for the total treatment.
Keyphrases
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