Patient positioning devices: Innovations for set-up precision, speed, and patient comfort

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue , 1996, Pages 115-122

  Graham, Mary V ^a,b   Gerber, Russell ^a   Purdy, James A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; NEOPLASM; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; POSTURE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029704218     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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