An investigation of a video-based patient repositioning technique

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 606-614

  Yan, Yulong ^a   Song, Yulin ^a   Boyer, Arthur L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Optimization; Patient repositioning; Pattern recognition; Video imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PATTERN MATCHING; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN; VIDEO CAMERAS;

SKIN SURFACES;

ONCOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MICROCOMPUTER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SKIN; TECHNIQUE; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; VIDEODISC RECORDING;

EID: 0036804457     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)02934-6     Document Type: Article

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