Brachytherapy
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 223-229 , October 2006

Comparative assessment of doses to tumor, rectum, and bladder as evaluated by orthogonal radiographs vs. computer enhanced computed tomography-based intracavitary brachytherapy in cervical cancer

  • Niloy Ranjan Datta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, Regional Cancer Centre, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiotherapy, Regional Cancer Centre, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rae Barelli Road, Lucknow - 226014, India. Tel.:/fax: +91-522-2668476.
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  • Anurita Srivastava

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, Regional Cancer Centre, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
    • ,
  • Koilpillai Joseph Maria Das

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, Regional Cancer Centre, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
    • ,
  • Archana Gupta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging, Regional Cancer Centre, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
    • ,
  • Neeraj Rastogi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, Regional Cancer Centre, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

Received 19 April 2006 ,Revised 28 August 2006 ,Accepted 6 September 2006.

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PII: S1538-4721(06)00250-9

doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2006.09.001

Brachytherapy
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 223-229 , October 2006

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