Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 52-56 , January 2009

Prediction of seed migration after transperineal interstitial prostate brachytherapy with I-125 free seeds

  • Akitomo Sugawara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. Tel.: +81-3-5363-3835; fax: +81-3-3359-7425.
    • ,
  • Jun Nakashima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Naoyuki Shigematsu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Etsuo Kunieda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Atsushi Kubo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Received 11 June 2008 ,Revised 6 October 2008 ,Accepted 8 October 2008.

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PII: S1538-4721(08)00654-5

doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.10.003

Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 52-56 , January 2009

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