Investigations on uncertainties in patient positioning for prostate treatment with EPID;Untersuchungen zur positionierungsgenauigkeit bei prostatakonformationsbestrahlungen mittels portal-imaging

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 84-90

  Bakai, Annemarie ^a   Paulsen, Frank ^a   Plasswilm, Ludwig ^a   Bamberg, Michael ^a   Nüsslin, Fridtjof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Patient positioning uncertainties; Portal imaging; Prostate treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; ERROR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SHIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION;

ARTIFACTS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MALE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036008043     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-002-0844-8     Document Type: Article

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