Motion and deformation of the target volumes during IMRT for cervical cancer: What margins do we need?

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 233-240

  van de Bunt, Linda ^a   Jürgenliemk Schulz, Ina M ^a   de Kort, Gérard A P ^a   Roesink, Judith M ^a   Tersteeg, Robbert J H A ^a   van der Heide, Uulke A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Margins; MRI; Organ motion; Tumor regression

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 49149087432     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.12.017     Document Type: Article

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