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Billy W. Loo, Jr., MD, PhD, DABR

Publication Details

  • High retention and safety of percutaneously implanted endovascular embolization coils as fiducial markers for image-guided stereotactic ablative radiotherapy of pulmonary tumors.

    Hong JC, Yu Y, Rao AK, Dieterich S, Maxim PG, Le QT, Diehn M, Sze DY, Kothary N, Loo BW. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011; 81 (1): 85-90

    To compare the retention rates of two types of implanted fiducial markers for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) of pulmonary tumors, smooth cylindrical gold "seed" markers ("seeds") and platinum endovascular embolization coils ("coils"), and to compare the complication rates associated with the respective implantation procedures.

    PubMedID: 20675070

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