Inter-fraction bladder filling variations and time trends for cervical cancer patients assessed with a portable 3-dimensional ultrasound bladder scanner

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 172-179

  Ahmad, Rozilawati ^a   Hoogeman, Mischa S ^a   Quint, Sandra ^a   Mens, Jan Willem ^a   de Pree, Ilse ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D portable Ultrasound; Bladder volume; Cervix cancer; IGRT; Patient positioning; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER FILLING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 55149085938     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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