A novel curvilinear approach for prostate seed implantation

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1887-1892

  Podder, Tarun K ^a   Dicker, Adam P ^b   Hutapea, Parsaoran ^c   Darvish, Kurosh ^c   Yu, Yan ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

curvilinear method; dose distribution; prostate brachytherapy; prostate cancer; radioactive seed implantation

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; NEEDLES; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CURVILINEAR METHOD; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE CANCERS; SEED IMPLANTATION;

UROLOGY;

EID: 84861648401     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3694110     Document Type: Article

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