Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for skull base tumors: Analysis of treatment accuracy using a stereotactic mask fixation system

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Minniti, Giuseppe ^a,b   Valeriani, Maurizio ^a   Clarke, Enrico ^a   D'Arienzo, Marco ^a   Ciotti, Michelangelo ^a   Montagnoli, Roberto ^a   Saporetti, Francesca ^a   Enrici, Riccardo M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTIONATED STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMMOBILIZATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM ERROR; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 76949108865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-1     Document Type: Article

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