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Effect of skull shape approximations in Gamma Knife dose calculations

Doses in Leksell GammaPlan (Elekta, Stockholm, Sweden) are calculated for each shot by summing the contribution from the 201 radiation beams emitted by the Gamma Knife (Elekta), weighted for attenuation in the tissue traversed. The patient's head is modeled based on 24 skull measurements, from...

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Autores principales: Berndt, Anita, Beck, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17712300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v8i3.2377