Clinical Study
Decreasing the Dose to the Rectal Wall by Using a Rectal Retractor during Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer: A Comparative Treatment Planning Study
Table 1
Evaluation criteria used for the optimisation, selected from QUANTEC [25]. Due to different PTV margins and the possibility to retract the rectal wall, the limits were lower in this study.
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The volumes are expressed in relative volume in QUANTEC. It is translated to absolute dose for a rectal wall volume of 40 cm3. |