MRI-based preplanning in low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-120

  Tanaka, Osamu ^a,b   Hayashi, Shinya ^a,b   Matsuo, Masayuki ^a,b   Nakano, Masahiro ^c   Kubota, Yasuaki ^c   Maeda, Sunaho ^a,b   Ohtakara, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Deguchi, Takashi ^c   Hoshi, Hiroaki ^a  

^a Department of Radiology ^*

^b Division of Radiation Oncology

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; MRI; Preplanning; Prostate brachytherapy; TRUS

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 45849103875     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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