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Prostate cancer

Feasibility of MRI-based reference images for image-guided radiotherapy of the pelvis with either cone-beam computed tomography or planar localization images

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Pages 889-895 | Received 17 Jun 2014, Accepted 16 Aug 2014, Published online: 18 Sep 2014

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