Comparative study of treatment dose plans after the refinement of Leksell Gamma Knife® single-beam dose profiles

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3556-3561

  Cheung, Joel Y C ^a   Ng, K P ^b   Yu, C P ^b   Ho, Robert T K ^b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b Canossa Hospital   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gamma Knife ; GammaPlan ; Monte Carlo; Single beam profiles

Indexed keywords

TUMORS;

CLOSE PACKED; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ERROR AMPLIFICATION; GAMMA KNIFE; RADIOSURGERY; SINGLE BEAM; TUMOR VOLUMES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; GAMMA KNIFE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 34548309117     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2766760     Document Type: Article

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