Set-up error & organ motion uncertainty: A Review

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 29-47

  Booth, J T ^a,b   Zavgorodni, S F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Organ motion uncertainty; Review; Set up error

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN; BREAST; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; KIDNEY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEOPLASM; PELVIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; UROGRAPHY;

BRAIN; BREAST; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; KIDNEY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; POSTURE; PROSTATE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROGRAPHY;

ORGAN MOTION UNCERTAINTY; SET-UP ERRORS;

DOSIMETRY; ERRORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0033237778     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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