Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 93, Issue 1 , Pages 25-31 , October 2009

A cost-outcome analysis of Image-Guided Patient Repositioning in the radiation treatment of cancer of the prostate

  • Nicolas Ploquin

      Affiliations

    • Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Department of Medical Physics, Alta., Canada
    • University of Calgary, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Alta., Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, 501 Smyth Road, Box #927, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1H 8L6.
    • ,
  • Peter Dunscombe

      Affiliations

    • Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Department of Medical Physics, Alta., Canada
    • University of Calgary, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Alta., Canada
    • University of Calgary, Department of Oncology, Alta., Canada

Received 27 October 2008 ,Revised 22 March 2009 ,Accepted 31 March 2009.

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☆ This work was presented in part at ESTRO 2007, Barcelona.

PII: S0167-8140(09)00147-9

doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.03.023

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 93, Issue 1 , Pages 25-31 , October 2009

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