… this study was to compare the dosimetric benefit of 4 IMRT target alignment methods for
prostate cancer, specifically daily image-guidance using skin, bone, US, and CT alignment. The …

… of an offline adaptive radiotherapy (ART) method to correct larger patient positioning
uncertainties in image-guided radiotherapy for prostate cancer (PCa). Materials and methods …

… This explains the importance of image guided radiation therapy (IGRT): it allows for the
adjustment of the patients’ daily setup and correction of target positioning during treatment …

… radiotherapy with 5-mm margin coverage from the clinical target volume (prostate gland) was
… In the past 6 months, we have switched the method of isocenter alignment to using fusion …

… dosimetric impact on target areas and organs at risk should be studied for different localization
techniques, … ultrasound alignment will have suboptimal target coverage compared with CT …

… Simulation CT studies were transferred to a 3D dosimetric planning platform (Pinnacle 3 v7.6…
alignment techniques. The range of prostate interfraction movement for skin mark alignment …

… Forty prostate cancer patients were treated with external … the therapists to visually align the
treatment field according to the location of the seeds. This alignment procedure is referred to …

… to assess the dosimetric effects in prostate cancer patients … modulated radiation therapy and
proton beams, respectively. … prostate interface), we used the skin-mark alignment method to …

… Target coverage of the prostate and nodal planning target volumes was adequate for all …
bony alignment for manual correction. Soft-tissue landmarks including the rectal wall/…

… of the dosimetric coverage of the prostate gland when … based target alignments, the coverage
of the prostate gland … consistent dosimetric coverage of the prostate gland when alignment …