Robotic needle guide for prostate brachytherapy: Clinical testing of feasibility and performance

Brachytherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-63

  Song, Danny Y ^a   Burdette, Everette C ^b,c   Fiene, Jonathan ^d   Armour, Elwood ^a   Kronreif, Gernot ^e   Deguet, Anton ^c   Zhang, Zhe ^f   Iordachita, Iulian ^c   Fichtinger, Gabor ^c,g   Kazanzides, Peter ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ACOUSTIC MEDSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology   (Austria)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE THERAPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; ROBOTICS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLES; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 78651464834     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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