Efficiency and dose planning comparisons between the perfexion and 4C leksell gamma knife units

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 191-198

  Niranjan, Ajay ^a,b   Novotny, Josef ^a   Bhatnagar, Jagdish ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformality, treatment planning; Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion, efficiency; Multiple metastases

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENINGIOMA; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIATION DOSE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 66149084837     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000222663     Document Type: Article

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