The effect of contouring variability on dosimetric parameters for brain metastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 924-931

  Stanley, Julia ^a   Dunscombe, Peter ^a   Lau, Harold ^a   Burns, Paul ^b   Lim, Gerald ^a   Liu, Hong Wei ^a   Nordal, Robert ^a   Starreveld, Yves ^b   Valev, Boris ^a   Voroney, Jon Paul ^a   Spencer, David P ^a  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY; TUMORS;

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CONFORMITY INDEX; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; METHODS AND MATERIALS; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUPS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; REFERENCE VALUE; SECONDARY; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; SELF EFFICACY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84888262850     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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