Controversies and New Developments in Gynecologic Brachytherapy: Image-Based Intracavitary Brachytherapy for Cervical Carcinoma

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 164-167

  Nag, Subir ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

brachytherapy; cervical neoplasm; CT scan; image based; MRI; treatment guidelines

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSIMETRY; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TARGET ORGAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745233811     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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