Clinical use of the hyperthermia treatment planning system HyperPlan to predict effectiveness and toxicity

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 407-419

  Sreenivasa, Geetha ^a   Gellermann, Johanna ^a   Rau, Beate ^a   Nadobny, Jacek ^a,b   Schlag, Peter ^a   Deuflhard, Peter ^b   Felix, Roland ^a   Wust, Peter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyperthermia treatment planning; Patient models; Pelvic tumors; Regional hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOGENS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PLANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

CLINICAL USES;

HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RECTUM CARCINOMA; TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHYSICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037297109     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)04144-5     Document Type: Article

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