Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10917995 | Radiotherapy and Oncology | 2015 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We quantitatively estimated dosimetric variations due to interfraction organ deformation in multi-fractionated high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDRBT) for cervical cancer using a novel surface-based non-rigid deformable registration. As the number of consecutive HDRBT fractions increased, simple addition of dose-volume histogram parameters significantly overestimated the dose, compared with distribution-based dose addition.
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Kazuma Kobayashi, Naoya Murakami, Akihisa Wakita, Satoshi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Rei Umezawa, Kana Takahashi, Koji Inaba, Hiroshi Igaki, Yoshinori Ito, Naoyuki Shigematsu, Jun Itami,