CARABEAMER: A treatment planner for a robotic radiosurgical system with general kinematics

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 237-264

  Tombropoulos, Rhea Z ^a   Adler, John R ^b   Latombe, Jean Claude ^c  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Image guided surgery; Medical robotics; Minimally invasive surgery; Radiosurgery; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROBOTICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0033181755     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(99)80022-X     Document Type: Article

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