Equivalence in Dose Fall-Off for Isocentric and Nonisocentric Intracranial Treatment Modalities and Its Impact on Dose Fractionation Schemes

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 943-948

  Ma, Lijun ^a   Sahgal, Arjun ^b   Descovich, Martina ^a   Cho, Young Bin ^b   Chuang, Cynthia ^a   Huang, Kim ^a   Laperriere, Normand J ^b   Shrieve, Dennis C ^c   Larson, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberknife; Fractionation; Gamma Knife; Linear accelerator; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL TISSUES; ANALYTIC MODELS; BRAIN TISSUE; CYBERKNIFE; DOSE FRACTIONATION; EFFECTIVE DOSE; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; GAMMA KNIFE; INTRACRANIAL TUMORS; NORMAL TISSUE; PERIPHERAL DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT MODALITY;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; ONCOLOGY; TARGETS; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CYBERKNIFE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY;

BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 76049083835     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.07.1721     Document Type: Article

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