An improved technique for comparing Gamma Knife dose-volume distributions in stereotactic radiosurgery
| Autor: | Lee Walton, Andras A. Kemeny, D. M. C. Forster, Stephen M Tozer-Loft |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
Computer science
medicine.medical_treatment Brachytherapy Stereotaxic surgery Gamma knife Radiosurgery Models Biological Histogram Meningeal Neoplasms medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Melanoma Fourier Analysis Radiological and Ultrasound Technology business.industry Eye Neoplasms Radiation dose Dose-Response Relationship Radiation Radiotherapy Dosage Neuroma Acoustic Data Display sense organs Meningioma Nuclear medicine business Algorithms Volume (compression) |
| Zdroj: | Physics in Medicine and Biology. 44:1905-1919 |
| ISSN: | 1361-6560 0031-9155 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0031-9155/44/8/305 |
| Popis: | A function derived from the geometry of brachytherapy dose distributions is applied to stereotactic radiosurgery and an algorithm for the production of a novel dose-volume histogram, the Anderson inverse-square shifted dose-volume histogram (DVH), is proposed. The expected form of the function to be plotted is checked by calculating its value for single focus exposures, and its application to clinical examples of Gamma Knife treatments described. The technique is shown to provide a valuable tool for assessing the adequacy of radiosurgical plans and comparing and reporting dose distributions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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