Comprehensive I-125 multi-seed comparison for prostate brachytherapy: Dosimetry and visibility analysis

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 140-147

  Al Qaisieh, Bashar ^a   Smith, David W ^a   Brearley, Elizabeth ^a   St Clair, Shaun ^a   Bownes, Peter ^a  

^a Northern and Yorkshire Clinical Trials and Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Iodine 125; Prostate cancer; Visibility

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO TAILED TEST; ULTRASOUND; VISIBILITY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 34548026786     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.05.023     Document Type: Article

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