Treatment-planning considerations for prostate implants with the new linear RadioCoil™ Pd103 brachytherapy source
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Treatment‐planning considerations for prostate implants with the new linear RadioCoil™ Pd103 brachytherapy source
Recently, various linear source models, for example, 103Pd RadioCoil, have been introduced to overcome the shortcomings of traditional "seed" type interstitial prostate brachytherapy implants, such as migration and clumping of the seeds. However, the existing prostate treatment-planning systems have not been updated to perform dose calculation for implants with linear sources greater than 1.0 c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1526-9914
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v6i3.2097