CyberKnife radiosurgery for the spine

Techniques in Neurosurgery

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 232-241

  Gerszten, Peter C ^a,b   Welch, William C ^a  

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

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CyberKnife; Image guided surgery; Metastasis; Robotic surgery; Spine tumors; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SPINE DISEASE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 4644336333     PISSN: 10772855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00127927-200309030-00016     Document Type: Review

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