Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 40-44 , January 2009

Dosimetric guidance on using brachytherapy (low-dose-rate or high-dose-rate) to offset a flawed permanent prostate implant

  • Marco Zaider

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021. Tel.: +1-212-639-7125.

Received 21 December 2007 ,Revised 22 August 2008 ,Accepted 6 October 2008.

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PII: S1538-4721(08)00648-X

doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.10.001

Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 40-44 , January 2009

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