Comparison of conventional and CT-based planning for intracavitary brachytherapy for cervical cancer: Target volume coverage and organs at risk doses

Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Onal, Cem ^a   Arslan, Gungor ^a   Topkan, Erkan ^a   Pehlivan, Berrin ^a   Yavuz, Melek ^a   Oymak, Ezgi ^a   Yavuz, Aydin ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUM; SIGMOID; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK FACTOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON, SIGMOID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 68249134220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17569966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-9966-28-95     Document Type: Article

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