Prospective evaluation of a hydrogel spacer for rectal separation in dose-escalated intensity-modulated radiotherapy for clinically localized prostate cancer.

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Published in BMC Cancer on January 22, 2013

Authors

Franziska Eckert1, Saladin Alloussi, Frank Paulsen, Michael Bamberg, Daniel Zips, Patrick Spillner, Cihan Gani, Ulrich Kramer, Daniela Thorwarth, David Schilling, Arndt-Christian Müller

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiation Oncology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, Tübingen 72076, Germany.

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