Recommendations from gynaecological (GYN) GEC ESTRO working group (II): Concepts and terms in 3D image-based treatment planning in cervix cancer brachytherapy - 3D dose volume parameters and aspects of 3D image-based anatomy, radiation physics, radiobiology

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-77

  Pötter, Richard ^a   Haie Meder, Christine ^b   Van Limbergen, Erik ^c   Barillot, Isabelle ^d   De Brabandere, Marisol ^c   Dimopoulos, Johannes ^a   Dumas, Isabelle ^b   Erickson, Beth ^e   Lang, Stefan ^a   Nulens, An ^c   Petrow, Peter ^f   Rownd, Jason ^e   Kirisits, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d CENTRE GEORGES FRANÇOIS LECLERC   (France)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^f INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Brachytherapy; Cervix cancer; Dose volume parameters; Recommendations; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOBIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 31144452943     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.11.014     Document Type: Article

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