Sigmoid dose using 3D imaging in cervical-cancer brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 307-310

  Holloway, Caroline L ^a   Racine, Marie Lynn ^a   Cormack, Robert A ^a   O'Farrell, Desmond A ^a   Viswanathan, Akila N ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervical cancer; Normal tissue dose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON, SIGMOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350512354     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.06.032     Document Type: Article

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