Single fraction radiosurgery using Rapid Arc for treatment of intracranial targets

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wolff, Hendrik A ^a   Wagner, Daniela M ^a   Christiansen, Hans ^a   Hess, Clemens F ^a   Vorwerk, Hilke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIATION DOSE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 77956472839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-77     Document Type: Article

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