Computer simulation of cytotoxic and vascular effects of radiosurgery in solid and necrotic brain metastases

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-156

  Kocher, Martin ^a   Treuer, Harald ^a   Voges, Jürgen ^a   Hoevels, Moritz ^a   Sturm, Volker ^a   Müller, Rolf Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cerebral metastases; Computer simulation; Radiosurgery; Reoxygenation; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN NECROSIS; CELL DIVISION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOTOXICITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH;

BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NECROSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033998808     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00168-1     Document Type: Article

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