Improvement in dosimetry of ultrasound-guided prostate implants with the use of multiple stabilization needles

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-112

  Feygelman, Vladimir ^a   Friedland, Jay L ^a   Sanders, Robert M ^a   Noriega, Brian K ^a   Pow Sang, Julio M ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Conformal radiotherapy; Dosimetry; Ultrasound guided prostate implant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE; PRESCRIPTION; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLES; PRESCRIPTIONS, NON-DRUG; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0030158230     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0958-3947(96)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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