High-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy in a patient with bilateral hip prostheses planned using megavoltage computed tomography images acquired with a helical tomotherapy unit

Brachytherapy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-73

  Holly, Rick ^a   Myrehaug, Sten ^a   Kamran, Asim ^a   Sankreacha, Raxa ^a   Morton, Gerard ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Helical tomotherapy; High dose rate brachytherapy; Hip prostheses; MVCT; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TOMOTHERAPY;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 58149483697     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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