Patient position reproducibility in fractionated stereotactically guided conformal radiotherapy using the BrainLab® mask system

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 264-268

  Alheit, Horst ^a   Dornfeld, Sylvia ^a   Dawel, Monic ^a   Alheit, Michaela ^a   Henzel, Birgit ^a   Steckler, Kerstin ^a   Blank, Hilbert ^a   Geyer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy; Position reproducibility and accuracy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; MASK; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0035004921     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00002407     Document Type: Article

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