Analytical description of dose profile behaviour in Gamma Knife radiosurgery

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2035-2049

  Fenner, J ^a   Gwilliam, M ^a   Mehrem, R ^a   Bird, A ^a   Walton, L ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

IONIZING BEAMS; MULTIPLE COLLIMATORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

COBALT 60;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE COLLIMATOR BEHAVIOR; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 42649087729     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/8/003     Document Type: Article

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