819 / 1674
SAVI applicator with very close skin margin
skin dose is kept low
Yashar et al. Brachytherapy 8:367-372. 2009
Clinical experience with the SAVI brachytherapy applicator
Almost half of evaluated patients were
not candidates for other single-entry brachytherapy
devices because of skin spacing or breast size, demonstrating an expansion of candidates for
single-entry partial breast brachytherapy