New system for linear accelerator radiosurgery with a gantry-mounted video camera

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 739-746

  Kunieda, Etsuo ^a   Kitamura, Masayuki ^a   Kawaguchi, Osamu ^a   Ohira, Takayuki ^a   Ogawa, Kouichi ^b   Ando, Yutaka ^a   Nakamura, Kayoko ^a   Kubo, Atsushi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam's eye monitoring; Linear accelerator; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Video camera

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TELEVISION CAMERA;

COMPUTER TERMINALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 0032006202     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00844-4     Document Type: Article

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