Patients treated by model-C gamma knife with APS are less exposed to non-therapeutic irradiation

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-50

  Chiou, T S M ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automatic positioning system; Gamma knife; Irradiation; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC POSITIONING SYSTEM; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HELMET; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 40649103388     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1022537     Document Type: Article

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