Image-Guided Stereotactic Spine Radiosurgery on a Conventional Linear Accelerator

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-62

  Wang, Jia Zhu ^a   Rice, Roger ^a   Mundt, Arno ^a   Sandhu, Ajay ^a   Murphy, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CBCT; IGRT; OBI; Spine radiosurgery; SSRS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75149126393     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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