Fiducial-based targeting accuracy for external-beam radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 334-344

  Murphy, Martin J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Fiducial alignment; IMRT; Patient positioning; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; EXTERNAL RADIOTHERAPY; IMRT; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOSURGERY;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION; DECOMPOSITION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; ROTATION;

EID: 0036127009     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1448823     Document Type: Article

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