Adaptive image guided brachytherapy for cervical cancer: A combined MRI-/CT-planning technique with MRI only at first fraction

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-81

  Nesvacil, Nicole ^a   Pötter, Richard ^a   Sturdza, Alina ^a   Hegazy, Neamat ^a   Federico, Mario ^a   Kirisits, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Image guided adaptive brachytherapy; MRI based brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84878248814     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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