Quality assurance of treatment plans for interstitial and intracavitary high-dose-rate brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-60

  Das, Rupak K ^a   Bradley, Kristin A ^a   Nelson, Ian A ^a   Patel, Rakesh ^a   Thomadsen, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated partial breast irradiation; Interstitial implant; Intracavitary implant; Quality assurance; Treatment time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33645101996     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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