Estimation of Bladder-Wall Cumulative Dose in Multi-Fraction Image-Based Gynaecological Brachytherapy Using Deformable Point Set Registration
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Definitive treatment for cervical cancer most often consists of fractionated external beam radiotherapy combined with multi-fraction intracavitary brachytherapy. CT imaging in gynaecological brachytherapy treatment planning has been widely used in the past decade. With the advantages of image-based treatment planning and the commercial treatment planning software tools available, it is possible to determine the dose received at each voxel of the image for each dose fraction delivered. Recent recommendations for image-based dose recording recognize these capabilities, and a number of dose-volume-histogram (DVH) based parameters have been recommended for dose recording of both tumour/target volumes and organs at risk (OAR) [1, 2, 3].
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