Radiotherapy of liver metastases: Comparison of target volumes and dose-volume histograms employing CT- or MRI-based treatment planning

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 256-261

  Pech, Maciej ^a   Mohnike, Konrad ^a   Wieners, Gero ^a   Bialek, Ewa ^a   Dudeck, Oliver ^a   Seidensticker, Max ^a   Peters, Nils ^a   Wust, Peter ^b   Gademann, Günther ^a   Ricke, Jens ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; CT; Liver metastases; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOHEXOL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 42449095053     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1849-8     Document Type: Article

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