Radiotherapy of pelvic malignancies: Impact of two types of rigid immobilisation devices on localisation errors

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-27

  Mitine, Carine ^a   Hoornaert, M Thérèse ^a   Dutreix, Andrée ^b   Beauduin, Marc ^a  

^a Hospital de Jolimont   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Immobilisation devices; Pelvic cancer; Portal films; Radiotherapy treatment errors

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PELVIS CANCER; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; REPRODUCIBILITY; X RAY FILM;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; POSTURE; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 0032843201     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00071-7     Document Type: Article

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