The Dancing Cord: Inherent Spinal Cord Motion and Its Effect on Cord Dose in Spine Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.

Murat Alp OztekNina A MayrMahmud Mossa-BashaMatthew NyflotPatricia A SponsellerWei WuChristoph P HofstetterRajiv SaigalStephen R BowenDaniel S HippeWilliam T C YuhRobert D StewartSimon S Lo

Published in: Neurosurgery (2022)

Spinal cord motion may contribute to increases in radiation dose to the cord from SBRT for spine metastasis. A PRV margin of at least 1.5 to 2 mm surrounding the cord should be strongly considered to account for inherent spinal cord motion.

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