Monte Carlo N-particle (MCNP) simulation of prostate cancer brachytherapy with edema and I-125 seed displacement

• 主要作者: Almanza, Dustin Lorenz V.
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Animo Repository 2018
• 主題: Prostate; Prostate > Cancer; Edema
• 在線閱讀: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/5540

In prostate cancer brachytherapy, edema and source displacement are not accounted for in treatment planning. Edema or swelling of the prostate, results from trauma due to source implantation. The increase in prostate volume due to trauma results to source displacement that can affect the delivered d...