Stereotactic radiosurgery-radiotherapy: Should Monte Carlo treatment planning be used for all sites?

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 251-260

  Wilcox, Ellen E ^a   Daskalov, George M ^a   Lincoln, Holly ^a  

^a SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYBERKNIFE; DOSIMETRY; EFFECTIVE PATH LENGTH ALGORITHM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPINE METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 80053597735     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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