Brachytherapy
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 147-151 , July 2006

Real-time computed tomography dosimetry during ultrasound-guided brachytherapy for prostate cancer

  • Irving D. Kaplan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Therapy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, 330 Brookline Avenue, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02215. Tel.: +1-617-667-2345; fax: +1-617-667-9599.
    • ,
  • Paul Meskell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Therapy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Nicklas E. Oldenburg

      Affiliations

    • Radiation Oncology Associates, Providence, RI
    • ,
  • Brian Saltzman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Gary P. Kearney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Edward J. Holupka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Therapy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Received 8 December 2005 ,Revised 28 February 2006 ,Accepted 10 March 2006.

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 Financial disclosure: Nicklas E. Oldenburg is partially funded through an unrestricted grant from the UroMed Corporation, Needham, MA.

PII: S1538-4721(06)00044-4

doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2006.03.001

Brachytherapy
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 147-151 , July 2006

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