AnchorSeed for the reduction of source movement in prostate brachytherapy with the Mick applicator implant technique

Brachytherapy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-26

  Badwan, Hamzeh O ^a   Shanahan, Angela E ^a   Adams, Mark A ^b   Shanahan, Thomas G ^a   Mueller, Paul W ^a   Markwell, Stephen J ^b   Tarter, Thomas H ^b  

^a MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dose evaluation; Hybrid interactive brachytherapy; Prostate cancer; Seed slippage

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; NEEDLE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RECTUM; URETHRA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MOTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72449124136     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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