Cumulative Doses to Brain and Other Critical Structures After Multisession Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Treatment of Multiple Metastatic Tumors

Cumulative Doses to Brain and Other Critical Structures After Multisession Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Treatment of Multiple Metastatic Tumors

PurposeRepeat stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is an attractive alternative to whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) for treatment of recurrent brain metastases (BM). The purpose of this study is to determine the cumulative doses to the brain and critical normal structures in patients who underwent re...

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Main Authors: Jianling Yuan, Richard Lee, Kathryn Ellen Dusenbery, Chung K. Lee, Damien C. Mathew, Paul Wayne Sperduto, Yoichi Watanabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
stereotactic radiosurgery
multisession
brain metastasis
cumulative dose
gamma knife
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2018.00065/full

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