Conventional High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy With Concomitant Complementary IMRT Boost: A Novel Approach for Improving Cervical Tumor Dose Coverage

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 765-771

  Duan, Jun ^a   Kim, Robert Y ^a   Elassal, Shaaban ^a   Lin, Hui Yi ^b   Shen, Sui ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; high dose rate; intensity modulated radiotherapy; Intracavitary brachytherapy; Three dimensional treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CERVICAL CANCER; HIGH-DOSE-RATE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; INTRACAVITARY BRACHYTHERAPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TREATMENT PLANNING;

DRUG DOSAGE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 44449093154     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.10.064     Document Type: Article

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