Technology insight: Image-guided robotic radiosurgery - A new approach for noninvasive ablation of spinal lesions

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 405-414

  Romanelli, Pantaleo ^a   Adler Jr , John R ^b  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE CANCER; SPINE INJURY; SPINE METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46949103980     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc1131     Document Type: Review

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