The Leksell gamma knife Model U versus Model C: A quantitative comparison of radiosurgical treatment parameters

Neurosurgery

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 168-172

  Kuo, John S ^a   Yu, Cheng ^a   Giannotta, Steven L ^a   Petrovich, Zbigniew ^a   Apuzzo, Michael L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison; Gamma knife; Radiosurgery; Technology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC POSITIONING SYSTEM; AUTOMATION; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CAVERNOUS SINUS TUMOR; CHILD; COLLIMATOR; COLLIMATOR SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMITY INDEX; DOSIMETRY; EXCESS TREATED VOLUME; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; OPTIC CHIASM; PARAMETER; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SEKHAR GRADING SYSTEM; TOTAL TREATED VOLUME; TREATED TUMOR VOLUME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UNDERDOSED TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 3042819108     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000126880.33125.e6     Document Type: Article

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