A study of the clinical, treatment planning and dosimetric feasibility of dose painting in external beam radiotherapy of prostate cancer

Background and purpose: Radiotherapy dose painting is a promising technique which enables dose escalation to areas of higher tumour cell density within the prostate which are associated with radioresistance, known as dominant intraprostatic lesions (DILs). The aim of this study was to determine fact...

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Main Authors: Steve W. Blake, Alison Stapleton, Andrew Brown, Sian Curtis, Janice Ash-Miles, Emma Dennis, Susan Masson, Dawn Bowers, Serena Hilman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405631620300397