Effect of Bladder Distension on Dose Distribution of Intracavitary Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer: Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography Plan Evaluation

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 464-468

  Cengiz, Mustafa ^a   Gürdalli, Salih ^b   Selek, Ugur ^a   Yildiz, Ferah ^a   Saglam, Yücel ^a   Özyar, Enis ^a   Atahan, I Lale ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Arizona Oncology Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder distension; Brachytherapy; Cervical cancer; Dosimetry; Three dimensional planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

BLADDER DISTENSION; CERVICAL CANCER;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

CISPLATIN; IRIDIUM 192; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER DISTENSION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROCOMPUTER; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGIST; RANK SUM TEST; RECTUM; SMALL INTESTINE; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON, SIGMOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38149057551     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.06.048     Document Type: Article

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