Clinical and anatomical guidelines in pelvic cancer contouring for radiotherapy treatment planning

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 222-229

  Portaluri, Maurizio ^a   Bambace, Santa ^a   Perez, Celeste ^a   Giuliano, Giuseppe ^a   Angone, Grazia ^a   Scialpi, Michele ^b   Pili, Giorgio ^a   Didonna, Vittorio ^a   Alloro, Emira ^a  

^a PERRINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Department of Radiology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer du col ut rin; Cervical cancer; Clinical target volume; CT; IRM; MRI; Radiotherapy; Radioth rapie; Scanographie; Volume cible

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BONE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS CANCER; PENIS CARCINOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION FIELD; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 4644318693     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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