Image-guided cervix high-dose-rate brachytherapy treatment planning: Does custom computed tomography planning for each insertion provide better conformal avoidance of organs at risk?

Brachytherapy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-42

  Davidson, Melanie T M ^a   Yuen, Jasper ^a   D'Souza, David P ^a   Batchelar, Deidre L ^a  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervix cancer; Computed tomography; High dose rate brachytherapy; Intracavitary; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192; PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 39449117428     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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