Image-based dose planning of intracavitary brachytherapy: Registration of serial-imaging studies using deformable anatomic templates

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 227-243

  Christensen, Gary E ^a   Carlson, Blake ^a   Chao, K S Clifford ^b   Yin, Pen ^a   Grigsby, Perry W ^b   Nguyen, Kim ^b   Dempsey, James F ^b   Lerma, Fritz A ^b   Bae, Kyongtae T ^b   Vannier, Michael W ^c   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervix cancer; Continuum mechanical registration; Image registration; Internal organ motion

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FLUIDS; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ANATOMIC TEMPLATES;

ONCOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORMITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SOFT TISSUE; TARGET ORGAN; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE REACTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VISCOSITY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON, SIGMOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PELVIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 17944380705     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(01)01667-4     Document Type: Article

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