Analysis of serial CT scans to assess template and catheter movement in prostate HDR brachytherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1063-1071

  Mullokandov, Eduard ^a,b   Gejerman, Glen ^a  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EAGI Consulting Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Catheter displacement; HDR; Prostate

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HIGH-DOSE-RATE (HDR);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSTOMY CATHETER; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHIUM; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MICRODOSIMETRY; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1542346475     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2003.08.020     Document Type: Article

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