Clinical outcomes of brain metastases treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery with 3.0 T versus 1.5 T MRI-based treatment planning: Have we finally optimised detection of occult brain metastases?

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 554-560

  Loganathan, Amritraj G ^a   Chan, Michael D ^a   Alphonse, Natalie ^a   Peiffer, Ann M ^a   Johnson, Annette J ^a   McMullen, Kevin P ^a   Urbanic, James J ^a   Saconn, Paul A ^a   Bourland, J Daniel ^a   Munley, Michael T ^a   Shaw, Edward G ^a   Tatter, Stephen B ^a   Ellis, Thomas L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Tesla MRI; brain metastases; radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867340663     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2012.02429.x     Document Type: Article

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