Prospects for microbeam radiation therapy of brain tumours in children to reduce neurological sequelae

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 577-581

  Laissue, J A ^e   Blattmann, H ^a   Wagner, H P ^b   Grotzer, M A ^c   Slatkin, D N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c Universitats Kinderklinik   (Switzerland)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNCHROTRON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; X-RAY THERAPY;

EID: 34547470601     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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