Intraoperative optimized inverse planning for prostate brachytherapy: Early experience

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 801-808

  Messing, Edward M ^b   Zhang, J B Y ^a   Rubens, Deborah J ^a   Brasacchio, Ralph A ^a   Strang, John G ^a   Soni, Arvind ^a   Schell, M C ^a   Okunieff, Paul G ^a   Yu, Yan ^a  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided surgery; Inverse planning; Multi objective decision theory; Optimization; Prostate brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DECISION THEORY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; PALLADIUM; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032982873     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(99)00088-7     Document Type: Article

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