Determining DVH parameters for combined external beam and brachytherapy treatment: 3D biological dose adding for patients with cervical cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 248-253

  Van de Kamer, Jeroen B ^a   De Leeuw, Astrid A C ^b   Moerland, Marinus A ^b   Jürgenliemk Schulz, Ina Maria ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological dose adding; Cervical cancer; DVH; MR image guided brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77249167185     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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