HDR prostate monotherapy - Dosimetric effects of implant deformation due to posture change between TRUS- and CT-imaging

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-119

  Seppenwoolde, Yvette ^a   Kolkman Deurloo, Inger Karine ^a   Sipkema, Dick ^a   de Langen, Mark ^a   Praag, John ^a   Jansen, Peter ^a   Heijmen, Ben ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; CT; Dosimetry; Prostate cancer; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 38149120882     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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