Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers for MRI-guided high-dose-rate brachytherapy: Novel marker-flange for cervical cancer and marker catheters for prostate cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 387-393

  Schindel, Joshua ^a   Muruganandham, Manickam ^a   Pigge, F Christopher ^b   Anderson, James ^a   Kim, Yusung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC ACCURACY; HIGH-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; INTRACAVITARY APPLICATOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); METHODS AND MATERIALS; PATHWAY RECONSTRUCTION; PROSTATE CANCERS; SALINE SOLUTIONS;

AMINO ACIDS; APPLICATORS; CATHETERS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; TITANIUM; UROLOGY;

FLANGES;

AGAROSE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; COPPER SULFATE; FISH OIL; MEGLUMINE IOTALAMATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TITANIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETERS; COBALT; COPPER SULFATE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FISH OILS; HUMANS; IOTHALAMATE MEGLUMINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SEPHAROSE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCERTAINTY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 84877584202     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.12.026     Document Type: Article

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