Three-Dimensional Imaging in Gynecologic Brachytherapy: A Survey of the American Brachytherapy Society

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 104-109

  Viswanathan, Akila N ^a   Erickson, Beth A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

3D image based brachytherapy; Cervical cancer; Survey

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; 3D IMAGING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CERVICAL CANCERS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CURRENT PRACTICES; DOSE SPECIFICATIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION; NORMAL TISSUE; POST-IMPLANTATION; RADIATION UNIT; SMALL BOWEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3-D) IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANS; TUMOR VOLUMES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RESONANCE; SURVEYS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; IMPLANTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; SIGMOID; SMALL INTESTINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETHRA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; X RAY FILM;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTUM; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UNITED STATES; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72049083210     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.01.043     Document Type: Article

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