Dose calculation of 142Pr microspheres as a potential treatment for arteriovenous malformations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 151-166

  Lee, Sung Woo ^a,c   Reece, Warren Daniel ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

ARTERIES; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION (AVM); MICROSPHERES; NEUROLOGY DEFECTS;

DOSIMETRY;

MICROSPHERE; PRASEODYMIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; ANIMAL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRASEODYMIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 13244270144     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/1/012     Document Type: Article

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