Vaginal dose point reporting in cervical cancer patients treated with combined 2D/3D external beam radiotherapy and 2D/3D brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-105

  Westerveld, Henrike ^a,b   Pötter, Richard ^a,b   Berger, Daniel ^a   Dankulchai, Pittaya ^a,c   Dörr, Wolfgang ^a   Sora, Mircea Constantin ^a   Pötter Lang, Sarah ^a   Kirisits, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Keywords Brachytherapy Radiotherapy Cervical cancer Vagina Dose reporting Dose points

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA;

EID: 84878241226     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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