Gamma knife robotic microradiosurgery for benign skull base meningiomas: Tumor shrinkage may depend on the amount of radiation energy delivered per lesion volume (Unit Energy)

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-16

  Hayashi, Motohiro ^a,b,c   Chernov, Mikhail ^a,b,d   Tamura, Noriko ^a   Izawa, Masahiro ^a   Muragaki, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Iseki, Hiroshi ^a,b   Okada, Yoshikazu ^a   Takakura, Kintomo ^a,b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science   (Japan)

^c San ai Hospital   (Japan)

^d International Institute of the Biological Systems   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Automatic positioning system; Gamma Knife radiosurgery; Skull base meningioma; Unit energy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; META ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; SKULL BASE TUMOR; THERAPY EFFECT; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649522167     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321184     Document Type: Article

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