Image-based three-dimensional treatment planning of intracavitary brachytherapy for cancer of the cervix: Dose-volume histograms of the bladder, rectum, sigmoid colon, and small bowel

Brachytherapy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 187-194

  Kim, Robert Y ^a   Shen, Sui ^a   Duan, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervical cancer; Dose volume histogram; Image based treatment planning; Organs at risk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; SIGMOID; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON, SIGMOID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTESTINE, SMALL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547531487     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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