Bouquet brachytherapy: Feasibility and optimization of conically spaced implants

Brachytherapy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-63

  Fu, Lei ^a   Ng, Wan Sing ^b   Liu, Haisong ^a   O'Dell, Walter ^a   Rubens, Deborah ^a   Strang, John ^a   Schell, Michael C ^a   Brasacchio, Ralph ^a   Liao, Lydia ^a   Messing, Edward ^a   Yu, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Conical implantation; Dosimetry; Prostate; Robotics

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BOUQUET BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMPLANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; RECTUM; ROBOTICS; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETHRA;

EID: 20044383186     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2004.10.006     Document Type: Article

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