Single-Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Intracranial Targets

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-97

  Verhey, Lynn J ^a   Chen, Clark C ^b,c   Chapman, Paul ^b   Loeffler, Jay ^b   Curry, William T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; PROTON;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER PATIENT; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; EPILEPSY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GAMMA RADIATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; IONIZING RADIATION; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENINGIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SKIN METASTASIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; TUMOR VOLUME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HELIUM; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745205297     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2006.04.004     Document Type: Review

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