Gentlemen (and ladies), choose your weapons: Gamma Knife vs. linear accelerator radiosurgery

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 79-85

  Stieber, Volker W ^a   Bourland, J Daniel ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^b   Mehta, Minesh P ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Cyberknife; Gamma Knife; Linear accelerator; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

BEAM THERAPY; BRAIN TUMOR; COLLIMATOR; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; GAMMA KNIFE; HEAD POSITION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MACHINE; MANPOWER; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0038523833     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460300200202     Document Type: Review

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