Whole-procedure clinical accuracy of Gamma Knife treatments of large lesions

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5110-5114

  Ma, Lijun ^a,b   Chuang, Cynthia ^a   Descovich, Martina ^a   Petti, Paula ^a   Smith, Vernon ^a   Verhey, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSF Over 60 Research Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; Dosimetry; Gamma Knife; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE CALCULATION; GAMMA KNIFE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GAMMA-KNIFE TREATMENT; MECHANICAL ACCURACY; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COBALT 60;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FILM; GAMMA KNIFE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEAD; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; NEUROSURGERY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 54949145067     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2987669     Document Type: Article

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