Image-guided helical Tomotherapy for treatment of spine tumors

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-362

  Kim, Brian ^a   Soisson, Emilie T ^a   Duma, Christopher ^a   Chen, Peter ^a   Hafer, Russell ^a   Cox, Craig ^a   Cubellis, Jim ^a   Minion, Annamarie ^a   Plunkett, Marianne ^a   Mackintosh, Ralph ^a  

^a HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided radiotherapy; Spine tumors; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METASTASIS; MYELITIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION INJURY; SPINE TUMOR; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; DOSE FRACTIONATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; NEURONAVIGATION; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VACUUM;

EID: 41149123805     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.12.024     Document Type: Article

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