Image-guided high dose rate endorectal brachytherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4451-4458

  Devic, Slobodan ^a   Vuong, Té ^a   Moftah, Belal ^a,b   Evans, Michael ^a   Podgorsak, Ervin B ^a   Poon, Emily ^a   Verhaegen, Frank ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

High dose rate brachytherapy; Preoperative down staging modality; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

APPLICATORS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY;

CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; ENDORECTAL BRACHYTHERAPY; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE DOWN-STAGING MODALITY; RECTAL CANCER; ROTATIONAL ALIGNMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDORECTAL BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY FILM;

EID: 35648935900     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2795669     Document Type: Article

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