Quality assurance of I-125 seed permanent implant therapy using a self-color developing reflection-type dosimetry sheet film

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 474-477

  Furutani, Shunsuke ^a   Ikushima, Hitoshi ^a   Ozaki, Kyosuke ^a   Oita, Masataka ^a   Sasaki, Motoharu ^a   Takegawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Nishitani, Hiromu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dead seed; I 125 seed; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FILM; HUMAN; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; X RAY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 29344444243     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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