Methodology of Continuous Extracranial Radiosurgery for Lung Cancer Using EXOMIO 3-D CT Simulation

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 241-244

  Strassmann, Gerd ^a   Vacha, Peter ^a   Braun, Isabell ^a   Richter, Detlev ^b   Engenhart Cabillic, Rita ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b RHEINMAIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extracranial radiosurgery; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PRONE POSITION; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1842714996     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-004-1169-6     Document Type: Article

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