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Investigation of dosimetric differences between the TMR 10 and convolution algorithm for Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery

Since its inception, doses applied using Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (GKR) have been calculated using a simple TMR algorithm, which assumes the patient's head is of even density, the same as water. This results in a significant approximation of the dose delivered by the Gamma Knife. We investigate...

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Autores principales: Rojas‐Villabona, Alvaro, Kitchen, Neil, Paddick, Ian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5690517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27929495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v17i6.6347