Image-guided intensity-modulated radiation therapy of spine tumors

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 207-211

  Yamada, Yoshiya ^a   Lovelock, Michael ^b   Bilsky, Mark H ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KYPHOPLASTY; KYPHOSIS; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE TUMOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646756572     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-006-0007-x     Document Type: Review

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