A multicentre comparison of the dosimetric impact of inter- and intra-fractional anatomical variations in fractionated cervix cancer brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-25

  Nesvacil, Nicole ^a   Tanderup, Kari ^b   Hellebust, Taran P ^c,d,e   De Leeuw, Astrid ^f   Lang, Stefan ^a   Mohamed, Sandy ^b,i   Jamema, Swamidas V ^g   Anderson, Clare ^h   Pötter, Richard ^a   Kirisits, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AUTHORITY   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^g TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^h MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Adaptive brachytherapy; Cervix cancer brachytherapy; Image guided brachytherapy; Interfraction variations

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGMOID; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; TUMOR BURDEN; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84878252089     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.01.012     Document Type: Article

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