Selective source blocking for Gamma Knife radiosurgery of trigeminal neuralgia based on analytical dose modelling

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3455-3463

  Li, Kaile ^a   Ma, Lijun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOSURGERY; SOURCE BLOCKING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEUROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SURGERY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 4444242901     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/15/010     Document Type: Article

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