Technical description, phantom accuracy, and clinical feasibility for fiducial-free frameless real-time image-guided spinal radiosurgery

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 303-312

  Muacevic, Alexander ^a   Staehler, Michael ^b   Drexler, Christian ^b   Wowra, Berndt ^b   Reiser, Maximilian ^b   Tonn, Joerg Christian ^b  

^a European CyberKnife Center Munich   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CyberKnife; Fiducial free registration; Radiosurgery; Spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CONTROL; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MELANOMA; MENINGIOMA; NEURINOMA; PAIN; PROSTATE TUMOR; SARCOMA; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; STOMACH TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; X RAY; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33750707586     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2006.5.4.303     Document Type: Article

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