Prostate displacement kit: Reducing the radiation dose to the rectum

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 291-293

  Kälkner, Karl Mikael ^a   Nilsson, Josef ^b   Lundell, Marie ^b   Levitt, Seymour ^a,c   Nilsson, Sten ^a  

^a Department of Oncology ^*  (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Displacement kit; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RECTUM;

EID: 33845301690     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.10.027     Document Type: Article

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