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Vaginal Cylinder

A metallic tube that is inserted into the vagina in order to facilitate delivery of vaginal intracavitary radiation therapy.
National Institutes of Health

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2017
2017
Automated high-dose rate brachytherapy treatment planning for a single-channel vaginal cylinder applicator
High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatment planning is conventionally performed manually and/or with aids of preplanned… 
2014
2014
Assessment of air pockets in high-dose-rate vaginal cuff brachytherapy using cylindrical applicators
Purpose To retrospectively assess the incidence and magnitude of air pockets around vaginal cylinders and its impact on dose… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
The role of vaginal brachytherapy in the treatment of surgical stage I papillary serous or clear cell endometrial cancer.
2013
2013
Dosimetric comparison of optimization methods for multichannel intracavitary brachytherapy for superficial vaginal tumors.
2006
2006
Computation of relative dose distribution and effective transmission around a shielded vaginal cylinder with 192Ir HDR source using MCNP4B.
The present work is primarily focused on the estimation of relative dose distribution and effective transmission around a… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Deformable structure registration of bladder through surface mapping.
Cumulative dose distributions in fractionated radiation therapy depict the dose to normal tissues and therefore may permit an… 
2004
2004
Multi-channel intracavitary vaginal brachytherapy using three-dimensional optimization of source geometry.
1994
1994
Dose distributions produced by a shielded vaginal cylinder using a high-activity iridium-192 source.
Algorithms commonly used to compute the dose distribution around a 192Ir source do not calculate the dose by summing the primary… 
1991
1991
High-dose-rate afterloading brachytherapy, external radiation therapy, and combination chemotherapy in poor-prognosis cancer of the cervix
1981
1981
Adjunctive Radiation Therapy in the Management of Stage I Cancer of the Endometrium
One hundred fifty-two patients with stage I, grades 2 and 3 adenocarcinoma of the endometrium, treated in 1972 and 1973 at the… 
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