Evaluation of mechanical precision and alignment uncertainties for an integrated CT/LINAC system

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1198-1210

  Court, Laurence ^a   Rosen, Isaac ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Dong, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; ROTATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURATE CORRECTION; DIGITAL READOUTS; FIDUCIAL MARKER; MECHANICAL INTEGRITY; MECHANICAL PRECISION; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RELIABILITY; ROTATION; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0038377171     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1573792     Document Type: Article

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