Customized vaginal vault brachytherapy with computed tomography imaging-derived applicator prototyping

Brachytherapy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 380-384

  Wiebe, Ericka ^a   Easton, Harry ^b   Thomas, Gillian ^b   Barbera, Lisa ^b   D'Alimonte, Laura ^b   Ravi, Ananth ^b  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Custom applicator; Image derived prototyping; Stereolithography; Vaginal brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY DEVICE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSTOMIZED VAGINAL VAULT BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DEVICES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VAGINA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VAGINA;

EID: 84928386059     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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