Variability in spine radiosurgery treatment planning - results of an international multi-institutional study

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Toussaint, André ^a   Richter, Anne ^a   Mantel, Frederick ^a   Flickinger, John C ^b   Grills, Inga Siiner ^c   Tyagi, Neelam ^c   Sahgal, Arjun ^d   Letourneau, Daniel ^e   Sheehan, Jason P ^f   Schlesinger, David J ^f   Gerszten, Peter Carlos ^b   Guckenberger, Matthias ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^e PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Delineation; Planning variability; Spine radiosurgery; Vertebral metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOSURGERY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; CLINICAL TRIAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84982804402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-016-0631-9     Document Type: Article

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