Registration accuracy and possible migration of internal fiducial gold marker implanted in prostate and liver treated with real-time tumor-tracking radiation therapy (RTRT)

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 275-281

  Kitamura, Kei ^a   Shirato, Hiroki ^a   Shimizu, Shinichi ^a   Shinohara, Nobuo ^a   Harabayashi, Toru ^a   Shimizu, Tadashi ^a   Kodama, Yoshihisa ^a   Endo, Hideho ^a   Onimaru, Rikiya ^a   Nishioka, Seiko ^a   Aoyama, Hidefumi ^a   Tsuchiya, Kazuhiko ^a   Miyasaka, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internal marker; Migration; Radiotherapy; Real time tracking; Registration

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LIVER; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER SIZE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GOLD ALLOYS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036223115     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(02)00017-8     Document Type: Article

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