Vaginal motion and bladder and rectal volumes during pelvic intensity-modulated radiation therapy after hysterectomy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 256-262

  Jhingran, Anuja ^a   Salehpour, Mohammad ^a   Sam, Marianne ^a   Levy, Larry ^a   Eifel, Patricia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder filling; Gynecologic malignancies; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Organ motion; Vaginal movement

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR DIRECTIONS; CHANGES IN VOLUME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GYNECOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES; HIGH DOSE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ORGAN MOTION; ORGAN POSITION; SMALL BOWEL; TARGET VOLUMES; VAGINAL MOVEMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GYNECOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER FILLING; BODY POSITION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ORGAN SIZE; PELVIC INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RECTUM; RECTUM VOLUME; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRINKING WATER; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA;

EID: 83955162984     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.08.024     Document Type: Article

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