The effect of titanium stabilization rods on spinal cord radiation dose

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-24

  Liebross, Robert H ^a   Starkschall, George ^a   Wong, Pei Fong ^a   Horton, John ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a   Komaki, Ritsuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Radiation; Spinal rods; Titanium

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINE STABILIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SPINAL CORD; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036224430     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-3947(02)00083-3     Document Type: Article

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