MRI of prostate brachytherapy seeds at high field: A study in phantom

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5228-5234

  Thomas, S D ^a,b   Wachowicz, K ^a   Fallone, B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Department of Physics ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Brachytherapy; Field dependence; MRI

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SPIN POLARIZATION; UROLOGY;

3 TESLA; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLOSE PROXIMITY; FAST SPIN ECHOS; FIELD DEPENDENCE; IMAGING MODALITY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; SEED LOCALIZATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRACHYTHERAPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE;

SUS;

EID: 70350712617     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3244036     Document Type: Article

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