CyberKnife® radiosurgery in the treatment of complex skull base tumors: Analysis of treatment planning parameters

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Collins, Sean P ^a   Coppa, Nicholas D ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b   Collins, Brian T ^a   McRae, Donald A ^a   Jean, Walter C ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248365545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-1-46     Document Type: Article

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