From point A to the sculpted pear: MR image guidance significantly improves tumour dose and sparing of organs at risk in brachytherapy of cervical cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-180

  Tanderup, Kari ^a   Nielsen, Søren Kynde ^a   Nyvang, Gitte Bettina ^a   Pedersen, Erik Morre ^b   Røhl, Lisbeth ^b   Aagaard, Torben ^a   Fokdal, Lars ^a   Lindegaard, Jacob Christian ^a  

^a Department of Oncology ^*

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervical cancer; DVH parameters; Image guidance

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; SIGMOID; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77549087532     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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