Our experiences and suggestions with PEEK marker use in prostate cancer radiotherapy

Polyether ether ketone (PEEK), a material commonly used in industry, has recently been introduced in medicine. The use of PEEK in place of gold in gold marker implantation for prostate radiotherapy has been suggested to be advantageous because it is associated with a lower level of artefacts. In thi...

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Autor principal: Sen, Cenk Ahmet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2018
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5909730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29692664
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/wo.2018.74394
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description Polyether ether ketone (PEEK), a material commonly used in industry, has recently been introduced in medicine. The use of PEEK in place of gold in gold marker implantation for prostate radiotherapy has been suggested to be advantageous because it is associated with a lower level of artefacts. In this study, we present a disadvantage of this newly introduced method, which has not yet been defined in the literature, and offer a solution for this problem to shed light on this issue, which has not yet been completely understood.
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spelling pubmed-59097302018-04-24 Our experiences and suggestions with PEEK marker use in prostate cancer radiotherapy Sen, Cenk Ahmet Contemp Oncol (Pozn) Letter to the Editor Polyether ether ketone (PEEK), a material commonly used in industry, has recently been introduced in medicine. The use of PEEK in place of gold in gold marker implantation for prostate radiotherapy has been suggested to be advantageous because it is associated with a lower level of artefacts. In this study, we present a disadvantage of this newly introduced method, which has not yet been defined in the literature, and offer a solution for this problem to shed light on this issue, which has not yet been completely understood. Termedia Publishing House 2018-04-03 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5909730/ /pubmed/29692664 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/wo.2018.74394 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Termedia Sp. z o. o. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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title_full_unstemmed Our experiences and suggestions with PEEK marker use in prostate cancer radiotherapy
title_short Our experiences and suggestions with PEEK marker use in prostate cancer radiotherapy
title_sort our experiences and suggestions with peek marker use in prostate cancer radiotherapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5909730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29692664
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/wo.2018.74394
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