Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Cervix Cancer: High-Tech External Beam Therapy Versus High-Tech Brachytherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1272-1278

  Georg, Dietmar ^a   Kirisits, Christian ^a   Hillbrand, Martin ^a   Dimopoulos, Johannes ^a   Pötter, Richard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cervix carcinoma; Image guided brachytherapy; IMRT; Proton therapy

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; MICROFLUIDICS; PIGMENTS; RESONANCE; TARGETS; TISSUE;

BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY (BT); CERVIX CANCERS; CLINICAL SITUATIONS; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME (CVT); DOSE LIMITS; EXTERNAL BEAM THERAPY; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME (GTV); IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY (IGRT); MAGNETIC (CE); PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES (PTV); TUMOR EXTENSION;

TUMORS;

PROTON;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM; SIGMOID; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 45449112323     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.03.032     Document Type: Article

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