Image-guided intracavitary high-dose-rate brachytherapy for cervix cancer: A single institutional experience with three-dimensional CT-based planning

Brachytherapy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 240-247

  Wang, Brian ^a   Kwon, Alexander ^b   Zhu, Yunping ^b   Yeo, Inhwan ^b   Henson, Clarissa F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

^c Trinitas Comprehensive Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervix cancer; HDR; Image guidance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CAVITY;

ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67349154077     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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