Fiducial marker guided stereotactic liver radiotherapy: Is a time delay between marker implantation and planning CT needed?

Worm, Esben S; Bertholet, Jenny; Høyer, Morten; Fledelius, Walther; Hansen, Anders T; Larsen, Lars P; Nielsen, Jens E; Poulsen, Per R · Radiother Oncol · 2016

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Abstract

To minimize the risk of marker migration in fiducial marker guided liver SBRT it is common to add a delay of a week between marker implantation and planning CT. This study found that such a delay is unnecessary and could be avoided to minimize the treatment preparation time.

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