Improving prostate brachytherapy by developing image guidance

BJU International

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-243

  Acher, Peter L ^a,b   Dasgupta, Prokar ^a   Popert, Rick ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Imaging; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY; SOFT TISSUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; X RAY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 33846197163     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06557.x     Document Type: Note

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