Clinical Evaluation of Stereotactic Target Localization Using 3-Tesla MRI for Radiosurgery Planning

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1472-1479

  MacFadden, Derek ^a   Zhang, BeiBei ^b   Brock, Kristy K ^b   Hodaie, Mojgan ^c   Laperriere, Normand ^a,b   Schwartz, Michael ^c   Tsao, May ^a,d   Stainsby, Jeffrey ^e   Lockwood, Gina ^b   Mikulis, David ^f   Ménard, Cynthia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^e GE HEALTHCARE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; geometric accuracy; image guidance; magnetic resonance imaging; radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

GAMMA KNIFE; GEOMETRIC ACCURACY; IMAGE GUIDANCES; IMAGE-GUIDANCE; RADIOSURGERY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICS; SURFACES; TUMORS;

TARGETS;

GADODIAMIDE;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VALIDITY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77949556181     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.03.020     Document Type: Article

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