Prostate cancer: MR imaging-guided galvanotherapy - Technical development and first clinical results

Radiology

Volumn 245, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 895-902

  Vogl, Thomas J ^a   Mayer, Heinz P ^b   Zangos, Stefan ^a   Selby Jr , J Bayne ^c   Ackermann, Hanns ^c   Mayer, Florian B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Institute of Minimal Invasive Tumor Therapy   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC THERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ELECTROCOAGULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36248972339     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2453061623     Document Type: Article

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