PET-guided IMRT for cervical carcinoma with positive para-aortic lymph nodes - A dose-escalation treatment planning study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-35

  Mutic, Sasa ^a   Malyapa, Robert S ^a   Grigsby, Perry W ^a   Dehdashti, Farrokh ^a   Miller, Tom R ^a   Zoberi, Imran ^a   Bosch, Walter R ^a   Esthappan, Jacqueline ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Para aortic lymph nodes; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IRRADIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

DOSE ESCALATION;

ONCOLOGY;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUMBAR SPINE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PELVIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VERTEBRA BODY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037215314     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)03804-X     Document Type: Article

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