Intensity-modulated arc therapy with simultaneous integrated boost in the treatment of primary irresectable cervical cancer : TTreatment planning, quality control, and clinical implementation

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 799-807

  Vandecasteele, Katrien ^a   De Neve, Wilfried ^a   De Gersem, Werner ^a   Delrue, Louke ^a   Paelinck, Leen ^a   Makar, Amin ^a   Fonteyne, Valérie ^a   De Wagter, Carlos ^a   Villeirs, Geert ^a   De Meerleer, Gert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; IMAT; Irresectable; SIB

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; BLADDER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILM DOSIMETER; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTESTINE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STANDARD; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVIX UTERI; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTESTINES; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 73449118964     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1986-8     Document Type: Article

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