A treatment planning study comparing HDR and AGIMRT for cervical cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 734-743

  Wahab, Sasha H ^a   Malyapa, Robert S ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Grigsby, Perry W ^a   Deasy, Joseph O ^a   Miller, Tom R ^a   Zoberi, Imran ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervix; Gynecologic; HDR; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

APPLICATORS; DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CERVIX; GYNECOLOGIC; IMRT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

APPLICATOR GUIDED INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 1942516834     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1645678     Document Type: Article

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