Assessment of imaging studies used with radiosurgery: A volumetric algorithm and an estimation of its error - Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 157-162

  Snell, John W ^a   Sheehan, Jason ^a   Stroila, Matei ^a   Steiner, Ladislau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma Knife; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN TUMOR; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMPIRICISM; FOLLOW UP; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; THICKNESS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644510125     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.104.1.157     Document Type: Article

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