An anthropomorphic phantom study of visualisation of surgical clips for partial breast irradiation (PBI) setup verification

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-59

  Thomas, Carys W ^a   Nichol, Alan M ^a   Park, Julie E ^a   Hui, Jason F ^a   Giddings, Alison A ^a   Grahame, Sheri ^a   Otto, Karl ^a  

^a Vancouver Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image guided radiotherapy; Partial breast irradiation; Surgical clip; Tantalum; Titanium

Indexed keywords

TANTALUM; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDITY; VISIBILITY;

ARTIFACTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TANTALUM; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149263300     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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