Influence of intravenous contrast agent on dose calculation in 3-d treatment planning for radiosurgery of cerebral arteriovenous malformations

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 318-324

  Zabel Du Bois, Angelika ^a,b   Ackermann, Benjamin ^a   Hauswald, Henrik ^a   Schramm, Oliver ^a   Sroka Perez, Gabriele ^a   Huber, Peter ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Milker Zabel, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D treatment planning; Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs); Contrast agent; Dose calculation; Radiosurgery (RS)

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65649114721     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1927-6     Document Type: Article

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