M Descovich

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Comparison between prone and supine patient setup for spine stereotactic body radiosurgery
    Martina Descovich
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Technol Cancer Res Treat 11:229-36. 2012
  2. ncbi Characteristics of megavoltage cone-beam digital tomosynthesis
    M Descovich
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0226, USA
    Med Phys 35:1310-6. 2008
  3. ncbi A dosimetric comparison between Gamma Knife and CyberKnife treatment plans for trigeminal neuralgia
    Martina Descovich
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
    J Neurosurg 113:199-206. 2010
  4. ncbi A two-step optimization method for improving multiple brain lesion treatments with robotic radiosurgery
    L Ma
    University of California San Francisco, Department of Radiation Oncology and Neurosurgery, UCSF Medical Center 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room L08 San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Technol Cancer Res Treat 10:331-8. 2011
  5. ncbi SU-E-T-446: Effect of Dose Calculation Grid Size Variability on the Specification of Spinal Cord Dose Tolerance for Spinal Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
    S Gros
    University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    Med Phys 39:3807. 2012

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi Comparison between prone and supine patient setup for spine stereotactic body radiosurgery
    Martina Descovich
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Technol Cancer Res Treat 11:229-36. 2012
    ..In addition, prone plans resulted in a lower number of monitor units compared to supine plans...
  2. ncbi Characteristics of megavoltage cone-beam digital tomosynthesis
    M Descovich
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0226, USA
    Med Phys 35:1310-6. 2008
    ..Potential clinical applications include patient setup and the development of breath holding techniques for gated imaging...
  3. ncbi A dosimetric comparison between Gamma Knife and CyberKnife treatment plans for trigeminal neuralgia
    Martina Descovich
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
    J Neurosurg 113:199-206. 2010
    ..A comparison between Gamma Knife and CyberKnife treatment plans obtained with this method is presented...
  4. ncbi A two-step optimization method for improving multiple brain lesion treatments with robotic radiosurgery
    L Ma
    University of California San Francisco, Department of Radiation Oncology and Neurosurgery, UCSF Medical Center 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room L08 San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Technol Cancer Res Treat 10:331-8. 2011
    ..In summary, a two-step optimization technique is demonstrated to significantly improve the treatment plan quality as well as reduce the planning effort for multi-target robotic radiosurgery...
  5. ncbi SU-E-T-446: Effect of Dose Calculation Grid Size Variability on the Specification of Spinal Cord Dose Tolerance for Spinal Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
    S Gros
    University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    Med Phys 39:3807. 2012
    ..Consequently, a specified cord dose tolerance should be quoted at a particular grid resolution uniformly adopted between institutions; 2 mm or less is an appropriate value...