Real-time opto-electronic verification of patient position in breast cancer radiotherapy

Computer Aided Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 296-306

  Baroni, G ^a   Ferrigno, G ^a   Orecchia, R ^a   Pedotti, A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Localization error; Motion analysis; Patient position; Radiotherapy; Stereophotogrammetry

Indexed keywords

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREATHING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRONICS; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MOTION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; OPTICS; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033752825     PISSN: 10929088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0150(2000)5     Document Type: Article

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