The Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion and comparisons with its predecessors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Lindquist, Christer ^a   Paddick, Ian ^a,b  

^a CROMWELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Perfexion; Radiosurgery; Radiotherapy; Stereotactic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA KNIFE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEURILEMOMA; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SOLID TUMOR;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RADIOSURGERY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34548665085     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000289726.35330.8a     Document Type: Article

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