Medical Dosimetry
Volume 33, Issue 3 , Pages 175-179 , Autumn 2008

Split-Volume Treatment Planning of Multiple Consecutive Vertebral Body Metastases for Cyberknife Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery

This paper was presented at the Cyberknife 6th Annual Users' Meeting, Jan 24–28, 2007, Palm Springs, CA.

  • Arjun Sahgal, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Arjun Sahgal, M.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143.
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  • Cynthia Chuang, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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  • David Larson, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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  • Kim Huang, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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  • Paula Petti, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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  • Phil Weinstein, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurologic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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  • Lijun Ma, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Received 8 February 2007 ,Revised 27 April 2007

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PII: S0958-3947(07)00107-0

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.04.010

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 33, Issue 3 , Pages 175-179 , Autumn 2008

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