Effects of Vessel Geometry and Catheter Position on Dose Delivery in Intracoronary Brachytherapy

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1286-1295

  Wahle, Andreas ^a   Lopez, John J ^b,c   Pennington, Edward C ^b   Meeks, Sanford L ^b   Braddy, Kathleen C ^b   Fox, James M ^b,d   Brennan, Theresa M H ^b   Buatti, John M ^b   Rossen, James D ^b   Sonka, Milan ^a  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Grand Traverse Heart Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary atherosclerosis; Dose distribution models; In stent restenosis; Intravascular brachytherapy; Multi modality imaging

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG THERAPY; RADIATION; ULTRASONICS;

INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER MODEL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; GEOMETRY; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RESTENOSIS;

ARTERIES; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 10744220086     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.818474     Document Type: Article

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