The sculpted pear: An unfinished brachytherapy tale

Brachytherapy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 189-199

  Erickson, Beth A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIUM;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1542316364     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2003.09.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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