Use of cone-beam imaging to correct for catheter displacement in high dose-rate prostate brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 299-305

  Holly, Rick ^a,b   Morton, Gerard C ^c   Sankreacha, Raxa ^a,d   Law, Niki ^a   Cisecki, Thomas ^a   Loblaw, D Andrew ^c   Chung, Hans T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Durham Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^d Carlo Fidani Peel Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catheter displacement; Cone beam; Dosimetry; High dose rate brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER DISPLACEMENT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FIDUCIAL MARKER; HIGH DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; URETHRA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETERS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958792539     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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