Image guidance in prostate cancer - can offline corrections be an effective substitute for daily online imaging?
Author(s) -
Indranil Mallick,
Devleena Prasad,
Pinaki Das,
NiladriS Saha,
Sanjoy Chatterjee,
R. Achari
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.131342
Subject(s) - prostate cancer , computer science , medicine , medical physics , cancer
This aim of this study was to determine if a less resource-intensive and established offline correction protocol - the No Action Level (NAL) protocol was as effective as daily online corrections of setup deviations in curative high-dose radiotherapy of prostate cancer.
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