A technique to sharpen the beam penumbra for Gamma Knife radiosurgery

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1843-1853

  Guerrero, M ^a   Li, X Allen ^a   Ma, Lijun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILTER; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0038497895     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/12/312     Document Type: Article

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