Daily positioning accuracy of frameless stereotactic radiation therapy with a fusion of computed tomography and linear accelerator (focal) unit: Evaluation of z-axis with a z-marker

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 337-339

  Uematsu, Minoru ^a   Sonderegger, Marcel ^b   Shioda, Akira ^a   Tahara, Kazuhiko ^a   Fukui, Toshiharu ^a   Hama, Yukihiro ^a   Kojima, Tadaharu ^a   Wong, James R ^c   Kusano, Shoichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractionated; Frameless; Geometrical errors; Radiotherapy; Stereotactic; Treatment unit

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HEAD; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032917269     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00037-7     Document Type: Article

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