Treatment planning guidelines regarding the use of CT/PET-guided IMRT for cervical carcinoma with positive paraaortic lymph nodes

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1289-1297

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

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Paraaortic lymph nodes; Positron emission tomography; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

COLONS; METASTASIS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KIDNEY; LIVER; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; SPINAL CORD; STOMACH; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 1542346461     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2003.09.074     Document Type: Article

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