The Vienna applicator for combined intracavitary and interstitial brachytherapy of cervical cancer: Clinical feasibility and preliminary results

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-90

  Dimopoulos, Johannes C A ^a   Kirisits, Christian ^a   Petric, Primoz ^a   Georg, Petra ^a   Lang, Stefan ^a   Berger, Daniel ^a   Pötter, Richard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging based interstitial brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; PATIENT MONITORING; TOPOLOGY; TUMORS;

CERVICAL CANCER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING-BASED INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RISK; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33746832046     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.04.041     Document Type: Article

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