Adaptive brachytherapy treatment planning for cervical cancer using FDG-PET

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-96

  Lin, Lilie L ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   LaForest, Richard ^a   Vicic, Milos ^a   Zoberi, Imran ^a,b   Miller, Tom R ^a,b   Grigsby, Perry W ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MO   (United States)

Author keywords

brachytherapy; cervix; PET; treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; CERVIX; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33845676664     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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