Dose optimisation in single plane interstitial brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-111

  Tanderup, Kari ^a   Hellebust, Taran Paulsen ^b   Honoré, Henriette Benedicte ^a   Nielsen, Søren Kynde ^a   Olsen, Dag Rune ^c   Grau, Cai ^a   Lindegaard, Jacob Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Department of Medical Physics ^*

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervix; Dose optimisation; Dose volume histogram; Interstitial; Rectum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENT CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33749598678     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.08.021     Document Type: Article

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