Image fusion analysis of volumetric changes after interstitial low-dose-rate iodine-125 irradiation of supratentorial low-grade gliomas

Radiation Research

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 438-444

  Julow, Jeno ^a   Major, Tibor ^b   Mangel, László ^c   Bajzik, Gábor ^d   Viola, Arpad ^a,d  

^a ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE CALCULATION; EDEMA; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INOPERABLE CANCER; IRRADIATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; VOLUMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; GLIOBLASTOMA; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRACHYTHERAPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249740309     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR0725.1     Document Type: Article

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