Dosimetric and radiobiological evaluation of dose distribution perturbation due to head heterogeneities for Linac and Gamma Knife stereotactic radiotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 917-927

  Theodorou, Kiki ^a,c   Stathakis, Sotirios ^a   Lind, Bengt ^b   Kappas, Constantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA KNIFE; IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 45849093361     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860701697712     Document Type: Article

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