PMID- 15656104
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050222
LR  - 20191109
IS  - 0939-3889 (Print)
IS  - 0939-3889 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 4
DP  - 2004
TI  - Optimisation in stereotactic radiosurgery of AVMs: II. Comparison of arc and MMLC 
      therapy.
PG  - 222-9
AB  - Two stereotactic surgery methods, arc and micro-multileave collimator (MMLC) 
      therapy, were compared in the particular case of arteriovenous malformations 
      (AVMs) treatment. Different methods of the treatment optimisation were used. The 
      comparison covered a group of 22 patients suffering from peripheral and central 
      AVMs of different sizes who underwent initially arc therapy. Several parameters 
      were evaluated to compare the two methods: 2D and 3D isodose representations, 
      dose-volume histograms (DVHs) and probability of success. The 3D isodoses were 
      compared for the 22 patients showing a better conformity for the MMLC (three 
      cases are presented). The DVHs of the AVM were also in favour of MMLC. In terms 
      of probability of success, the results showed that are therapy was superior only 
      in the case of small spherical lesions. MMLC therapy proved to be superior to arc 
      therapy in all cases but central spherical small volume AVMs.
FAU - Tercier, Pierre-Alain
AU  - Tercier PA
AD  - Institut Universitaire de Radiophysique Appliquee, Lausanne. 
      Pierre_Alain.Tercier@freesurf.ch
FAU - Aroua, Abbas
AU  - Aroua A
FAU - Mirimanoff, Rene O
AU  - Mirimanoff RO
FAU - Valley, Jean-Francois
AU  - Valley JF
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Germany
TA  - Z Med Phys
JT  - Zeitschrift fur medizinische Physik
JID - 100886455
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Arteriovenous Malformations/*surgery
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Neoplasms/*surgery
MH  - Probability
MH  - Radiosurgery/*methods/trends
MH  - Therapy, Computer-Assisted
EDAT- 2005/01/20 09:00
MHDA- 2005/02/23 09:00
CRDT- 2005/01/20 09:00
PHST- 2005/01/20 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/02/23 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/01/20 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1078/0939-3889-00228 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Z Med Phys. 2004;14(4):222-9. doi: 10.1078/0939-3889-00228.