An anthropomorphic phantom study of the accuracy of CyberKnife spinal radiosurgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1138-1146

  Yu, Cheng ^a   Main, William ^b   Taylor, David ^c   Kuduvalli, Gopinath ^b   Apuzzo, Michael L J ^a   Adler Jr , John R ^d   Wang, Michael Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ACCURAY INCORPORATED   (United States)

^c Boulder Community Hospital   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; CyberKnife; Spinal radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYBERKNIFE SPINAL RADIOSURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GAMMA IRRADIATION; IMPLANT; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE SURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY FILM;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; SPINE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 8744294785     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000141080.54647.11     Document Type: Article

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