Investigations of a minimally invasive method for treatment of spinal malignancies with LINAC stereotactic radiation therapy: Accuracy and animal studies

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1111-1122

  Medin, Paul M ^a,d   Solberg, Timothy D ^a   De Salles, Antonio A F ^b   Cagnon, Christopher H ^b   Selch, Michael T ^a   Johnson, J Patrick ^b   Smathers, James B ^a   Cosman, Eric R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Extracranial; Radiosurgery; Spine; Stereotaxis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IRRADIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

SPINAL MALIGNANCIES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

MARKER; TITANIUM;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER MODEL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; METAL IMPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; ROTATION; SIMULATION; SPINE; SPINE CANCER; STEREOTAXIS; SWINE; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PHYSICS; RADIOSURGERY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SWINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TITANIUM;

EID: 0037086333     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(01)02762-6     Document Type: Article

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