Monte Carlo Dosimetric Study of Percutaneous Vertebroplasty and Brachytherapy for the Treatment of Spinal Metastases

Background: Percutaneous vertebroplasty employs bone cement for injecting into the fractured vertebral body (VB) caused by spinal metastases. Radioactive bone cement and also brachytherapy seeds have been utilized to suppress the tumor growth in the VB. Objective: This study aims to investigate the...

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Main Authors: Payman Rafiepour, Sedigheh Sina, Parisa Azimi, Raza Faghihi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2023-10-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering
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Online Access:https://jbpe.sums.ac.ir/article_48144_8fa8c976f302665da1850125caef0d72.pdf