Dosimetric effects of air pockets around high-dose rate brachytherapy vaginal cylinders

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 276-279

  Richardson, Susan ^a   Palaniswaamy, Geethpriya ^a   Grigsby, Perry W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Gynecologic brachytherapy; High dose rate; Vaginal cylinder

Indexed keywords

AIR POCKETS; AVERAGE NUMBERS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA COLLECTION; DOSE REDUCTION; DOSIMETRIC IMPACT; ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; HIGH-DOSE RATE; HIGH-DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SINGLE-CHANNEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; VAGINAL CYLINDER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VAGINA;

AIR; BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GOLD; HUMANS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VAGINA;

EID: 77955922487     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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