Quality assurance program on stereotactic radiosurgery: report from a Quality Assurance Task Group
Radiosurgery performed with the "Gamma Knife" or on a linac facility is a specific radiotherapy method to treat certain lesions in the brain with a high single radiation dose. Geometric miss of a radiosurgica target is considered the most likely serious error in a stereotactic radiosurgery...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
01 July 1995
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| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-79718-7 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79718-7 |
| Author Notes: | by Günther H. Hartmann |
| Summary: | Radiosurgery performed with the "Gamma Knife" or on a linac facility is a specific radiotherapy method to treat certain lesions in the brain with a high single radiation dose. Geometric miss of a radiosurgica target is considered the most likely serious error in a stereotactic radiosurgery treaatment. Therefore, the issue of quality assurance in stereotactic radiosurgery is a serious one for neurosurgeons, physicists, patients and those of us who wish to analyze the results of radiosurgery. The purpose of this book is to offer and describe a quality assurance program and procedures of the physical and technical aspects through identifying the sources of possible errors and suggesting quality assurance tests that should be performed in order for a stereotactic system to be used clinically |
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| Item Description: | Elektronische Reproduktion der Druck-Ausgabe 6. Dezember 2012 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9783642797187 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-79718-7 |