Clinical assessment of coiled fiducial markers as internal surrogates for hepatocellular carcinomas during gated stereotactic body radiotherapy with a real-time tumor-tracking system.

CONCLUSIONS: Using an RTRT system and Visicoil markers, gated SBRT was well tolerated in patients with HCC. This can be considered a safe treatment strategy with potential for delivering favorable outcomes. PMID: 28285839 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28285839?dopt=Abstract

Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - March 8, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Hanazawa H, Takahashi S, Shiinoki T, Park SC, Yuasa Y, Koike M, Kawamura S, Shibuya K Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research