Assessment of a radiotherapy patient immobilization device using single plane port radiographs and a remote computed tomography scanner

Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 470-475

  Bley, Carla Rohrer ^a,c   Blattmann, Hans ^b   Roos, Malgorzata ^c   Sumova, Andrea ^b   Kaser Hotz, Barbara ^a  

^a Department of Small Animal Medicine ^*  (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immobilization device; Radiation therapy; Random displacement; Systematic displacement

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOG; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVALUATION; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; MOUTH TUMOR; NONHUMAN; NOSE TUMOR; PATIENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHOTON; PROTON RADIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; TECHNIQUE; X RAY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DOG DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; IMMOBILIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0042383373     PISSN: 10588183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8261.2003.tb00487.x     Document Type: Article

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