Comparison of radiosurgery planning modalities for acoustic neuroma with regard to conformity and mean target dose

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 165-171

  Perks, J R ^a,d   El Hamri, K ^b   Blackburn, T P D ^b,c   Plowman, P N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c London Radiosurgical Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Gamma knife linear accelerator plan comparison; Micro multileaf collimator

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA KNIFE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRESCRIPTION; PUBLICATION; RADIOSURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 29144471202     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089987     Document Type: Article

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