Treatment Planning for MRI Assisted Brachytherapy of Gynecologic Malignancies Based on Total Dose Constraints

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 619-627

  Lang, Stefan ^a   Kirisits, Christian ^a   Dimopoulos, Johannes ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a   Pötter, Richard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Gynecology; LQ model; Magnetic resonance imaging; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ANALYSIS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY FRACTION; DOSE CONSTRAINTS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

GYNECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON, SIGMOID; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 34548473370     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.06.019     Document Type: Article

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